"In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictators sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution . Mafingas 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 Jasmins husband Godi. But Jasmin has Godis secret story machine that tells of a better world, far different from the wastelands of Mafinga. Jasmins 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 Jasmins children as her own. Jasmin is powerless - until she discovers secrets behind the king and his sorcerer."--Publisher.