A series of natural disasters has left the earth in ruin with a few surviving pockets of civilization. Jana survived by living at a shelter cave commune. She became unsatisfied and traveled to a small established military town where she found work with the military. Jana's job was studying giant sized lizards. She quickly gets into trouble with Tor, the head of the military by telling other people of green beings she has seen while doing her work. One of the incidents was when she saw a naked green man dive into an indoor pool. Tor warns her not to talk about green people and to stop scaring her colleagues. He calls her hysterical and hallucinating. Jana and Tor pursue a tumultuous and fiery intimate relationship. She also: unwittingly activates sentience in a forbidden artificial intelligence, goes on a solo caving trip into a deep pit, gets tricked by Tor into traveling to the world of green aliens, participates in several shootouts, and discovers her birth control implant quit working. How many more problems could her new life bring?