Plot

Precocious 12-year-old SKYE WINTER spends all of her time in her hometown of, Collector making out with her schoolgirl crush, GREGORY GREGORY JR. However, there is a new technology that is taking her town by a storm called, Sustainatent. A hermetically sealable tent that is permanently installed over a family's home to protect them from a rising toxicity in the Earth's atmosphere. Environmental concerns aside, this is affecting young Skye Winter most dramatically because the Gregorys are the newest family to buy into this idea of retreating inside, meaning that she will have to say goodbye to Gregory, forever. And to top it all off, her pragmatic father, FINN, has been recruited as the key Sustainatent salesman for the town. Skye's grandmother, WINSOME, urges her to not give up on love as Finn did. In attempt to follow this advice and save Gregory, Skye joins a group of like-minded girls at her school and rallies them to sabotage the installation of the Gregory's Sustainatent. As this story plays out, it is narrated by the town's bus driver, BIG SUE, and scored by the local children's choir. On top of this there's town hall meetings, conspiracy theories, child activists and agricultural mishaps; all centered around a father and daughter whose relationship hangs in the balance.—Alicia Easaw-Mamutil