A modern, climate-focused retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
“No one goes to Caliban for a judgment on Miranda.” – Edith Wharton
On a hidden island skipped over by European colonization, an exiled former oil tycoon, William Prospero, has raised his daughter, Miranda, in isolation while he secretly plans to retake his monolithic oil company.
With little contact with the outside world, Miranda, an old maid at 29, has lived her entire life without ever meeting anyone save for three other souls: her father – and their two servants, Ariel and Caliban, natives of this forgotten island.
Miranda longs to see and experience the real world, and for an instant, it all seems possible when her father arranges for her to marry a handsome young bachelor six years her junior, Ferdinand, the son of a green-energy company executive who is developing technology to prevent hurricanes in the Caribbean.
On the eve of her wedding, however, in the dark of her bridal room, Caliban rapes Miranda.
Or does he?
Months after her wedding and the assault, coming out of a deep depression, Miranda summons the courage to take her rapist to trial, only to discover upon his successful conviction that Caliban is innocent.
Her rapist is someone else.
Now, Miranda must work to uncover the true identity of her attacker, but as she discovers the extent to which her father has manipulated and sheltered her, she realizes her father’s nefarious purpose in arranging her marriage to Ferdinand. Miranda must take action in the terrifying outside world, which is bigger and more complicated than she ever imagined, to unearth her father’s catastrophic oil schemes and uncover the true identity of her attacker.