Years earlier a virus rendered most women infertile and society as we know it crumbled as a result. Ami Miles is the last child of her family's compound and she choses to flee in search of her mother when her grandfather decides its time to breed her to a much older man.

On her first day there, Cedar sees a boy about her age riding by on the two lane highway. With nothing else to do, she hops on her bike and follows him into the heart of the annual Shakespeare festival.