The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland --- a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic --- and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien --- a women's world. What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways that the absence of men has changed society.