Synopsis

In 2080, climate change and pollution prevent humanity from living on Earth’s surface.  However, there is still hope—a mysterious Asteroid Belt surrounds the Earth, full of magical meteorites with cleansing and healing powers called the “Curites,” waiting to be discovered by humanity. At the beginning of the story, SAV-I, a transnational terrorist group, bombs nuclear power plants worldwide. Dr. Road, the Seattle Underground Capital project's chief scientist, urges the United States' environmental refugees to usher in a new era alongside genetically-engineered Wombats with human intelligence.  As refugees arrive in Seattle, they find themselves ruled mercilessly by the Central Artificial Superintelligence (CASI), while the US Coast Guard protects the ocean borders.

Secretly, Dr. Road has kept the first Curite that fell to Earth.  It emits light in the presence of the protagonist, an albino Wombat girl, Aara, the daughter of Dr. Road's humanoid Wombat assistant.  The Wombats’ fortunes take a turn for the worse when they are exiled and hunted by humans due to the depletion of food and water. 

Years later, Aara is living on an island of life transformed from a trash mound by a Curite, stolen by her deceased mother. Aara grapples with her mother’s death and the prophecy that hints she will save the world. Despite her mother's wish that she remain hidden, her wariness of humans, and the bullying by fellow Wombats, Aara conceives of a world where all can unite and be revived by love.  She finds the missing Curite, leaps into the outside world, and gets caught in the great war for the Curites.  Coast Guard ships transform and fly to combat SAV-I, which attacks with an enormous battleship.  Aara deploys her newfound ability to summon the Curite Angels - people thought to be missing, who all ascended to the Belt and share the healing powers.

Aara joins a Coast Guard expedition team led by Dr. Road to explore and find the remaining Curite pieces on land and sea to summon more beings from the Belt.  Among the new friends who aid the adventure are people with albinism and Ezra, Dr. Road's son, who is promoted as the hero of the prophecy, and with whom Aara falls in love.  Mysteries unfold as Aara learns that she must risk her own life to awaken the god of Earth, Rapha, who sought refuge in space to create the Belt, to bring everyone back to Earth, and revive our planet.  Aara must rise and become the Joan of Arc for the world, surviving an assassination attempt by the misguided Wombats, Ezra's betrayal by joining SAV-I, and CASI's ambition to use the Curites as a great meteor impact to wipe out humanity and become a new god.  Before ultimately meeting Rapha to obtain the power of creation, she is caught between becoming a human to save dying Ezra, who is revealed to be a humanized Wombat, or conforming to CASI's plan to become the master of the Earth.