In a world made grim by a slow Gibsonian Jackpot apocalypse young Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) tends to her paralysed father.
People scrape a living in the mud where most life has been replaced or hybridised with artificial genetically engineered organisms. Nothing edible grows but the seeds produced by the last bastions of technology and comfort: The Citadels.
When a Citadel flyer crashes and she rescues one of the occupants, Vesper hopes this will be their ticket up into the sky.
This does not come to pass.
CW: very mild body horror, some play with themes of slavery and untermensch/unpersonhood