The story opens in the distant future, postapocalyptic. Women have had to step up their game, moving in many directions, fighting on so many levels. The population and the earth had been severely damaged. Women outnumber the men in alarming numbers. There are roaming gangs of rogue males-rape gangs. Women have had to become warriors. All the Kalifee have to fight. The world's oldest profession helps support the Kalifee people. A woman could move from brothel worker to being the queen of the Kalifee, the Califia! A brothel worker was a skilled courtesan and could rise to exalted queen. Women were held at a high regard in Kalifee society and are equal to men.