Anna finds herself born into a desperate world seeking sustainable developments and forging a new identity in the process, but bargains humanity wholesale for something more egalitarian, something more unorthodox. On a remote Grecian Peninsula, her father raised her according to his Old-World beliefs, but their society stifled such belief with the threat of the deadlands. Anna is about to be recognized at a coming of age ceremony where her society's tenets are most poignant and now must contend a dangerous ultimatum: old world or new? Father God or Mother Earth? A novel that explores the whole nature of humanity through the struggles of an artist, and her uneasy wrestle for identity. A modern anxiety haunts each page with timeless motifs of philosophy, theology, and ideology. It is sure to be a new ripple in the pond of speculative fiction.