After conflict and climate change have killed off 99% of the population, two rival societies in the former United States are on the brink of war over technology that will forever alter what it means to be human. But when a top strategic mind who boarded a ship to flee Earth decades ago erroneously wakes up from space-flight in the U.S., she finds that 15% of adults have been born from her stolen DNA, making her dangerously influential, and responsible for saving her progeny.