Maya lives in a village ruled by an oppressive patriarchy. She is unaware that this pocket society exists within a nationwide matriarchy - a kingdom ruled by women for generations. When her village is burned down she is thrown into a wider world full of rules she does not understand and expectations she was unaware even existed. She quickly and unwittingly becomes involved in a plot to overthrow this matriarchy, meeting friends along the way who pull her along on their own journies. The further they travel through the world, the more evidence they see of the corruption in the country. Anti- immigration sentiment fuelled by stories and rumours, discontent and unemployment, basically problems being created out of nothing to keep everyone unsettled and unhappy even though there is nothing actually wrong with their lives/ to distract them from what is really making them miserable; long working hours, poor pay, greedy rulers who create rules and have them strictly and brutally enforced while making no secret of breaking them. Maya realises how selfish and self obsessed she has been and her headstrong, willfull anger becomes directed at the perpetrators of this rather than at the world for expecting her to be something she doesn’t want to be.