A high-altitude flight folding sent twenty-five-year-old Winnie plummeting into a future New York City fifteen years ahead. Her former husband, Julian, had become a tenured professor mastering cutting-edge cloning technology, accompanied by her own clone, Annie. Faced with the chasm of class and the abyss of age, Winnie—deprived of citizenship—was deemed a "spatial ghost" by the system, illegally stranded, and faced the dire prospect of having her genes forcibly reclaimed by Silicon Valley oligarchs. Watching her lover's suppressed tears and the clone's relentless advance, Winnie resolutely tore up the oligarchs' compliance contract, vowing to reclaim her love and existence in the icy future!