Shocking! Daunting! Ground Shaking! A potent prophecy of the tyranny of the powerful over the innocent in a post-nuclear war world. The great cities lying buried in rubble, humanity struggles on in little pockets scattered around the planet. Some have made strategic withdrawals to safer zones; others have no option but to accept their fate; while a few find themselves evacuated to be safeguarded thanks to the efforts of forward-thinking philanthropists. It remains a time of hard labour and hegemony but with a return to tried and tested simple straightforward social structures that frankly exist to give the maximum of benefits to a few without the need of sophistic ethical codes. No matter the circumstance the human spirit refuses to be extinguished. Here are the short stories in praise of the mollycoddled Sunrise's fight to escape a superficial haven, the savage Snort taking his tribe to a promised land and the herdsman Svein going against established wisdom. If they succeed in their quests they will become the stuff of legends. A stark reminder that humanity is umbilically linked to this planet and the closer the ties to nature the higher the chance of survival and conversely the further away from it the greater vulnerability to mishaps.