Prologue
It had been years since the country started teaching about The Event like it was mere mythology. Something that may or may not have actually happened. Something that likely has seeds of reality in it, but only the seeds, not the full tree of truth.
Regardless of if it’s myth or reality, they say The Event changed the course of human history. The way the story goes, some sort of device had gone off and fried all of the technology. The high-tech and educated population was thrown into the new Dark Ages. No electricity, no devices, minimal medical care.
Although the death toll was ultimately high, the biggest loss is said to be knowledge. So many books, essays, theories, and dissertations were just gone. When The Event hit, all digital copies were rendered useless while whatever hard-copies had been available had been used by struggling city-dwellers as makeshift firewood.
Since then things have changed. The country has been re-built, technology begins to thrive again. Despite this, every aspect of it is vastly different. Canadian politics are less democratic. Health care is no longer free. Societal structure is completely different.
Women only hold jobs in the rarest and most desperate of situations. Not a single woman competes in sports or attends higher level schooling. They are meant to be home-workers of various kinds. Nothing more.
It’s all about to change.
