In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictatorās sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution ā¦
Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with his sorcerer Atari, has collapsed the environment to almost uninhabitable. The sun has killed all the able men, including Jasminās husband Godi. But Jasmin has Godiās secret story machine
that tells of a better world, far different from the wastelands of Mafinga. Jasminās crime for possessing the machine and its forbidden literature filled with subversive text is punishable by death.
Fate grants a cruel reprieve in the service of a childless queen who claims Jasminās children as her own. Jasmin is powerlessāuntil she discovers secrets behind the king and his sorcerer.