The flood has killed every living thing on earth - except the eight souls aboard the Ark. When the waters recede and Noah's family steps onto Mount Ararat, they begin again.
Generations multiply. Villages rise. Then a strange disease moves through the settlements - not killing, but twisting tongues until husbands cannot speak to wives and mothers cannot comfort children. The shared language that held the world together shatters, and humanity scatters.
Yao, a young man raised at Noah's feet, is given a charge no one else can carry: lead his people east, past every known horizon, to a land his great-great-grandfather has seen only in dreams.
What begins as an exodus becomes the foundation of the world's oldest civilization ...
China