What if Christopher Columbus never discovers the Americas in 1492, but instead, driven by a life-saving prophecy, a young, Indigenous woman discovers Europe?

SYNOPSIS:

In the year 1492, people across KANATA are mysteriously dying. In the capital city of Tu Cho, Shaman search for answers, unable to stop the suffering. One Shaman, Ishkóh, sinks into a tree and listens to the mycelium root network and communicates with other Shaman across KANATA. He realizes what was prophesied years ago is happening now. Their blood has become too pure and must be renewed; The peoples of KANATA must cross the Big Water and find the Cloud People from whom they will collect DNA and restore their blood.

A reluctant 18-year-old leader, Yanna Tan, and her shape-shifting friend Kishi — who is secretly in love with her — and a crew of knowledge keepers, journey from the shores of KANATA and land in Spain. There, they find a strange and terrifying world, and a fight for their lives.

In a quest to become the next Pope, Cardinal Marinus sees the arrival of these mysterious newcomers as his path to power. He declares them to be demons and claims that he alone has the power to eradicate them.

Except these Indigenous heroes are on their own quest to find the Cloud People and to save the Red Race of KANATA. But who and where are the Cloud People? And why is the black argillite that Yanna Tan’s ship is made from important to a mysterious rock formation in a faraway land?

Back in Tu Cho, there is more death and instability. Ishkóh communicates remotely with Yanna Tan, aiding her quest, while also working to quell a populist rebellion fuelled by Ashini, his former student and lover. Ashini and her followers believe in neither the prophecy nor the land's consensus government. Instead, they extol the freedom of the individual. Ishkóh must struggle to find peace and hold on to power in a land threatened with extinction as he waits for Yanna Tan to return with a cure for the continent.