A ferocious superstorm strikes Minneapolis, leveling large swaths of the city in a matter of minutes. In the storm’s wake, three people forge an unlikely bond that will shape their lives for the next 25 years: Naomi, a disillusioned lawyer by day and amateur MMA fighter by night; Amaré, an up-by-the-bootstraps investment banker; and Raheem, a diesel mechanic struggling to save his business. When Naomi realizes that energy companies are responsible for the climate-induced superstorm, she initiates a bitter legal battle, one that culminates in her ascension to a political office in D.C. Yet her rise puts at risk a burgeoning romance with Amaré, whose own ambitions test Naomi’s ethical limits, while Raheem’s fate as a blue-collar business owner becomes dependent on the couple’s growing power.

In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark. Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods --- a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities. But as time passes, this supposed divine favor begins to drive the family apart. When supernatural events revisit the Flores family in Hawaii --- with tragic consequences --- they are all forced to reckon with the bonds of family, the meaning of heritage and the cost of survival.