Twenty years after she disappears without a trace, Selena’s sister Julie rings her up. When they meet, she first refuses to explain what has happened to her, where she has been all this time. But soon she shares a fantastical story of being on another planet, of other people and animals and continents so unlike our own. There are many kinds of rifts here: between the sisters, between their parents as they deal with the loss of a child, in Julie’s own life as it skips from one world to another. But these rifts aren’t only breaks or absences; they are also openings, places where something emerges into the world that wasn’t there before. Each rift creates two things where before there seemed only one.