Luca

Fourteen-year-old Luca lives in squalor at a prison for schizophrenic girls born a century after the 2011 Japanese nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The radiation gives her a special mutation: the thoughts of others play as voices in her mind. One night, she makes mental contact with a massive entity floating in space on its way to Earth. It’s alive, hungry and searching.

On the other side of the world, Frank Mercer finds a computer chip embedded in three billion-year-old rock, the last message of a dying civilization. It tells of a toxic interstellar Cloud larger than the sun that engulfed Earth, destroying all life.

And now it’s back.

With all the resources of Genesis Corporation, Mercer conceives a plan to keep the Cloud a secret, save a select few and restart civilization under his control.

Billions will die.

Only the science prodigy Qaara Kapoor stands in his way. With Mercer in pursuit, she escapes with Jedd, a castoff from the slums, to warn the world and save as many as she can.

As Qaara and Jedd fight Mercer, they all come to the same conclusion.

Luca is the key to everything.