A scientists daughter uses a virtual reality to escape a worldwide apocalypse. They must decide which world means more to them all while hiding from feral creatures in the real world that are trying to kill them

It's 1986, Shannon Crane means to be bound for a future she cannot know, on a day filled with possibility and hope. In her 7th grade class, Shannon has to reckon with the ordinary calamity of being herself after a simultaneous incident of being bullied, is caught between the extraordinary catastrophic event of the space challenger disaster, leaving a debris of searching, questioning.