The time is in the future when corporations like The Switch, Incorporated, Asian Reincarnation, and Black is Beautiful and You Can Be Too perform race switching by means of disk-implantation. After switching, a client wakes up as a racially-different person with a new identity, lacking memories of their bio-self. A Remember Journal with a few basic facts about their prior self is all they are given.
Valentina De Guzman, a two-time switchee, works as a tour guide and support group leader at San Francisco’s The Switch, Incorporated. Valentina is an attractive, smart, and professional switchee but she lacks a sense of cultural belonging, suffering from a condition she thinks of as racelessness. She sees herself as an imposter, something she, of course, cannot mention to the company’s prospective clients.
In a society where the white race is steadily diminishing and darker races are multiplying and taking more prominence in the world, a local white supremacist group is determined to take down The Switch by destroying its technology. This plus the discovery that the corporation Valentina works for might be involved in some underhanded business practices sends her and her work friends, plus an elderly woman known as Mama, on a dangerous journey.
Valentina’s personal quest involves finding a way to accept herself because once one switches, there is no going back.