The year is 2084 and climate events have produced a world where people can no longer go outside unprotected from The Sun. A series of protocols, procedures, and rules, referred to as the Conversion, have been implemented to save the world’s population. In opposite sides of the world, two middle aged women of color and their twenty-something daughters navigate their worlds with little ease in the Post Conversion world.
In the North, Odessa and Peaches battle boredom and the tensions and tedium that come from living indoors with only virtual games to pass their days.
In the South Lenora and Eva have defined the odds with the help of unconventional science and are existing outside; surviving as our primitive ancestors had centuries ago. The mothers, Odessa and Lenora are connected by a shared past. Both faced with the same obstacles chose opposing paths. Odessa’s choice left her enclosed under the strict leadership of the Potentate in the North, while Lenora’s left her free to live by the laws of nature in the South. In these well-defined worlds, things are however not what they seem, as both women discover things that shatter and disrupt their realities. Nothing is the same after. The Sun, who is personified, has plenty to say.
In a meditation on climate change, love, class, race and female strength and ingenuity; 2084: The Conversion provides a cautionary tale of where the human race and planet may be heading.