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Lizzie Benson did not hold a formal degree when she started her career as a librarian. However, this provides her with an advantage to pursue her other vocation as a pretend shrink. She has been taking care of her recovering addict brother and her god-fearing mother for years. Although things are now stable for both of them, Lizzie doesn't have much time to spend with her husband and children in her newfound spare time before an offer from her former mentor, Sylvia Liller, comes in. She wants to recruit Lizzie to answer the mail she gets from people on both the left and right who are concerned about the downfall of western civilization and climate change. She gained notoriety for her insightful podcast, Hell and High Water.

Lizzie starts to ponder what it means to continue caring for your own garden when you've witnessed the flames beyond its gates as she plunges deeper into this divisive realm. Lizzie is forced to confront the boundaries of her own experience when her brother becomes a parent and Sylvia retreats, but she still makes an effort to save everyone, drawing on all the knowledge she has accumulated over the years from her years spent rooting through library piles regarding compassion and hopelessness, guilt and cooperation. The voices of the city continue to drift in, amusing, unsettling, and more and more insane.