Work 1 - Description
Malia mourns the loss of her small daughter, kidnapped by the government. She spends her days alone safeguarding forbidden books in the False Knowledge Depository in Anacosta, formerly Washington DC. When an illegal reader uses the library, an Antifan Defense Forces squad crashes into Malia's quiet sanctuary to drag him off, and Malia fears she will be sent to prison. Instead, David, the squad's handsome commander, falls for her. David swears to Malia that he will recover her child, and then they will escape across the border into the still-free United States. But the search for the chil draws Malia into the orbit of sinister bureaucrats conducting truth serum experiments on low Social Crediteers such as herself. The Antifans turn Malia to spy on the bureaucrats, while striving to separate her from David.