Citizen Lipstick is stalked by her past. She is also menaced by Citizen Will, a psychotic cat burglar, one of a new generation of revelling citizen. Their society, led by an egoistic President, is in moral decline. The lives of these three intersect in the hilly streets of Darkmoon Bay, a reality much like ours. But their world has been altered by Citizen Lipstick asking the question, what is her right to life? Perhaps Citizen Will can provide an answer. Not much can be expected of the President, who is fully occupied with his own survival. Darkmoon Bay is one of the city's conservative, revelling suburbs. Nothing in the shadows of its apartment block canyons can support the growth of a geranium, let alone a moral conviction. The Church of the Prophets is similarly enfeebled. Citizen Lipstick's search for an answer leads her onto the unlikely green grass of Darkmoon Bay Park, beneath the giant image of the President in his political death throes. Whose knife will prevail?