This is the first person tale of an adult woman caught in a city ruled by physicists and engineers who create atomic and hydrogen bombs. She has to decide to keep secrets from the dreaded Plant Security people, whom she learns are human man after all. There is a murder, and plenty of mayhem as she frees herself into the world as she wishes it to be. Love, desire, art, and poetry are her new life, as well as two wonderful young men as her lovers.