Fleeing from home, Freeda uses the last of her family ration stamps to rent her first apartment cube on the ground level of Notional Central. Unfortunately, she discovers she surrounded by misfits, oddballs, and a few corporate outlaws as neighbors. Freeda wavers between sticking it out or running back to a dystopian society where crotchety Ganny, unbeknownst to her, has been taken prisoner to the Aridstasis Center and freeze-dried to force her return. What will Freeda do? Must she give up her new life to save her old hateful Ganny? And is she ready to face what really happened between her parents and grandparents?