Oxford Street burned for three weeks. The British Museum is squatted by ragtag survivors. The Regent's Park camps have been bombed. The Nazareth Act has come into force if you can't produce your identity card, you're going to be shot. Lalla, 16, has grown up sheltered from the new reality by her visionary father, Michael Paul. But now the chaos has reached their doorstep. Michael has promised Lalla and her mother that they will escape. Escape is a ship big enough to save 500 people. But only the worthy will be chosen