He wakes from a dream to find reality strangely altered. The streets are empty, women have vanished. On a tram, the only woman he sees—a mother heavy with child—erupts into flames, reduced to ash that scatters into puzzles. The pieces point to a terrifying truth: every woman in the world is gone. Racing home, he finds his mother missing too. To save her, he must enter a surreal world of trials and shadows. This is a tale of motherly love, identity, family, and the search for self. Published on MIT campus Journal