Judith's life is wildly changed the day billions of people are killed and the landscape is reduced to a barren wasteland. In the face of disaster, people attempt to pick up the broken pieces of their shattered lives when they discover something new about their environment: prolonged contact with metal shrapnel that now lays scattered across the earth causes people to slowly fade away into the background until they dissappear. Judith joins the relief effort and takes part in the dangerous task of clearing the metal and purifying the land.