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A teenager with hyper-empathy -- she feels others' pain as her own -- watches her gated community collapse and walks north through a burning California to build something better.
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After a flu pandemic devastates civilisation, a travelling Shakespeare company performs for those who remain.
A Black woman in 1970s California is pulled back in time to an antebellum plantation -- repeatedly, involuntarily, always to save the life of her white ancestor.
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