After the death of her brother, and now a mother herself, Sofia returns home ten years after leaving. She comes back to the only house in the village that still sustains life — thanks to its water well, the last remaining source that keeps the vegetable garden and livestock alive in a land devastated by drought. There, she reunites with her father, Gabriel, who is gravely ill and nearing death due to a vaccine administered 25 years ago. He is not alone. In the wake of climate collapse and overpopulation, a fascist-leaning government imposed a one-child policy, condemning anyone with more than one child to a programmed death through the injection of the so-called “Saturn25” vaccine. Gabriel never had a choice. When his eldest son, Xavier, fell terminally ill, he and his wife — who died giving birth — conceived another child in the hope of saving their firstborn: Sofia. Now, exactly twenty-five years later, the “heroes of the system” — those who were vaccinated — begin to suffer devastating side effects. Their bodies deteriorate in relentless pain as the promise of sacrifice reveals its true cost.Caught between the weight of her past and the uncertainty of the future, Sofia fights to obtain one of the newly developed antidotes meant to stop the poison’s effects. As Gabriel’s condition worsens, long-buried family secrets begin to surface — while outside, a desperate population rises in rebellion over the most precious and scarce resource of all: water.
