In an authoritarian future America, the government controls gender and family life. Ziya and Walker, two 17-year-olds, anxiously await their next birthday, which marks their Specification ceremony: the day when they must choose to be male or female and will get sorted into nuclear families. Before Specification, all young constituents live sexless and without a gender. Ziya and Walker have always taken for granted that they would be matched together,... see more