When tensions explode between the Earth colonists and the native inhabitants of Nasa, a gas attack upon the cities wrenches people's souls from their bodies and reorders them at random. Avan opens his eyes to a cornfield, wearing a stranger's clothes and with mere minutes to find shelter before the deadly swarm of insects arises at sunset. When any face could hide the soul of a loved one, Avan struggles to locate his younger brother Fong and their foster sisters among the millions of casualties in a world plunging into chaos. Weaving sinuously between characters and time, The Dammerung explores the collapse and reconstruction of a society through one family caught in the aftermath.