While trying to track down info on "the Burners", a mysterious group that's burning down whole settlements in seemingly random fashion, Jeremiah encounters a woman who's stealing all the gas she can get her hands on, and Kurdy ends up helping a pregnant girl, against his better judgment.

As Jeremiah and Kurdy travel around the country trying to find out more information about the Big Death, they come across a place which might bring forward the truth about what really happened to Kurdy's parents their last day alive.