It’s Earth Day, 2016, and Francis Green is reporting on the U.N. Global Climate Change accord from a laptop at the kitchen table of his San Francisco home while he awaits yet another round of staff layoffs at his newspaper. The Bay Area is enduring a heat wave of unprecedented and epic proportions. Meanwhile the country is reeling from the latest outrage of the presidential campaign. Francis’s wife, Beth, an OB/GYN, arrives home from a difficult twins delivery at the hospital to host a dinner party for their friend Sam, a successful corporate lawyer, and his younger girlfriend, Emmy, who works in Silicon Valley, the land of algorithm worship. As the evening progresses there will be revelations involving dead presidents, a famous philosophical thought experiment, Holocaust victims, tragic teenage loss, disruptive technology and personal betrayal. And before the night is over a life or death struggle will ensue – with perhaps the very soul of mankind hanging in the balance.