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Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the titles; she only desires there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to rip down the surfaces around her until little or nothing continued to be of her world, save for reviews told across the cookfire. Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For years the Matilda has ferried the previous of mankind to a mythical Promised Land. Coming the ship's market leaders have imposed severe moral limitations and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, whom they consider to be less than human. If the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign shows a surprising website link between his death and her mother's suicide some 1 / 4 century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seed products of civil battle, Aster learns there could be a way from the dispatch if she's willing to fight for this.