After forty years as a college professor, Henry Piller moved to California so he could garden in the sun. Six months later, he was invited to join the California contingent at the national convention in Atlanta. Now, he's underground, with thousands of other survivors, all of whom are strangers to him, and he's been "reassigned" as a farmer.
Henry's never minded being on his own, and he doesn't mind change. You need to bend with the wind, he always says. But this kind of change might be more than he can bear... until a little girl shows up to ask, "Are you a grandfather?"