After selling her family's share in a deep-space salt mine, Linnea Howard is struggling to adapt to a solitary life on Gamma-Kreski. In addition to the solitude, she's mismanaging her new homestead's power usage, failing to properly prepare for the coming dark season, dealing with the chronic pain of increased gravity, and losing faith in the one thing in her life that gave her purpose: her art. Can a simple act of neighborly kindness get her back on track before the coming darkness?