By the middle of the 21st century, the southwestern states of America are experiencing water shortages. Water resources have become a hot commodity, government officials and market players are forced to master new items: flow parameters in cubic feet per second, the amount of snow and melt deviations, the depth and fullness of dams and reservoirs. The threat of turning once fertile lands into a dusty, rocky desert is quite is real. California is seizing the initiative from other states, playing against the rules, trying to monopolize the life-giving flow of the Colorado River, bribing corrupt politicians and cutting off villages and small towns from waterways. Meanwhile, the desperate listen to the preachers of the “Jolly Perry” sect, who believe that God will send them rain. Officials continue to produce tons of useless papers. The poor die resignedly... And a young journalist, describing the death of the city of Phoenix, dares to look behind the scenes of the water distribution system. What will her dangerous investigation bring?