Gabriel Phillips presents a collection of stories which explore the potential for personal transformation, either internally motivated or driven by external forces, and questions to what extent people can adapt to new, vastly changed circumstances. Another theme is the potential consequences of mankind's desecration and abuse of the natural world. The stories roam across war-torn countrysides and through surreal post-apocalyptic landscapes. they include homages to authors as diverse as Ballard, Orwell and Poe