In spare, elegant prose Lunde tells the story of the worsening climate crisis from two perspectives - Signe in 2017, fighting to bring awareness to the destruction of the natural environment and beauty of her homeland in Norway, and David in 2041, fighting to keep himself and his daughter Lou alive in drought stricken France after they are separated from his wife Anna and son August. The book is heartbreaking both for the struggles the main characters face when relationships are severed by action or force, and to watch them struggle against a world that isn't changing for the better because of human action. The book does eventually tie together the connection between Signe and David - her actions many years ago possibly giving him an unexpected chance at survival, but there are times where the book doesn't seem to be moving forward at all. This could be intentional, done to demonstrate the feeling of hopelessness the characters experience, but for my ends I think it could have still been accomplished while improving the pace a little bit.