Fall, Coral's father figure, and Summer, a club dancer who lives in a food truck, provides a mature perspective. Recollections of how Coral and others came to be trapped in Trashlands are interwoven with episodes of their challenging day-to-day lives. Trashlands' proprietor, Rattlesnake Master, operates the place as a predatory company store and is determined to showcase Coral on his stage. One of the workers is Coral's moody son, Shanghai, whom she's desperate to locate and buy out of the factory. Coral's plastic makes its way to Dickensian factories where enslaved children remanufacture it into bricks, which are used to replace buildings damaged by severe sea-level rise and flooding. Trashlands is both a massive garbage dump where Coral collects plastic-which has replaced cash as currency-and a strip club where Foxy performs on stage and sells tattoos to men whose names are inked on her body. A trash scavenger and a strip club dancer form an alliance of necessity in a post-apocalyptic junkyard.
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