With all memory of her past erased, a young woman awakens to find that she has been transported to an all-female penal colony. She is held captive in a place where cells and iron bars are no longer needed to control prisoners. The penal colony is a hierarchy and based on dominance and submission. Rose Wilder paints portraits of lives where the enticement of love and the horror of insanity exist side by side in a strange, futuristic world.