The novel is based on women developing mysterious electric power. Roxy is only fourteen when she witnesses the murder of her mother by two men. Bernie, Roxy’s father, later kills the two men. In her attempt to fight off the men, Roxy discovers that she can generate an electric power using her hands. She kills Primrose, the gang’s leader. In Nigeria, Africa, a girl called Enuma shocks a journalist called Tunde. Tunde is surprised and films more women with this kind of power and sells the footage across the globe. Margot also discovers that his daughter, Jocelyn, has the mysterious power. Allie, a fourteen-year-old girl, is forced to use the power to kill her foster father, who is used to raping her.
In Moldova, women use the power to kill men who are oppressing them. Generally, power develops among all women across the globe. There is a social and political disorder prompted by the change of events in the whole world. When Allie kills her father, she flees to a convent and becomes a religious figure. Roxy is kidnapped by her father, who wants to remove her powers. However, women fight off men to control and rule the world. Eventually, women take control of the world.
Nevertheless, women decide that to cement the legacy of female supremacy, they need to incite global warfare and reverse time back to the Stone Age. In doing so, everything would appear as if women have been in power all along. The book explores the social construction of gender in the perspective of divisions and inequality between men and women in contemporary society. The author seems to suggest that women should not be ignored in a patriarchal society because things can change, and women rule the world.
