Above the Embers

When freelance writer Chen Mo predicts the devastating cost of nuclear war with data, he is denounced as a heretic. When the prophecy comes true and nuclear winter blankets the earth, survivors struggle on the ruins of civilization. Should they flee the scorched earth on an ark, or stay and coexist with a mutated planet? Chen Mo seeks answers in the radioactive dust, and every choice is a brutal game of humanity versus survival—on the embers of self-destruction, how should humanity redefine what it means to be alive?