A married couple trying to survive in the middle of an economic and social collapse finds out about a Positron Project and it seems to be the answer to their prayers. An employment where everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in for six months out of the year. Residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system on alternating months when this period is completed they go back to their "regular" lives. These could be fine until one of the members of the couple gets involved with the other person who lives in their house during the months when they are in the prison. The life of one of these persons is in danger and everything turns to look much different than an answer to prayers.