Billy Smith, alias, Billy Nomicill, has survived an unexplained shock wave and the world has changed. Suffering memory loss and prosopamnesia--he can't remember faces--he hopes to reboot his brain with the files in his julie, a dysfunctional personal computer. It's all there: the music, the visual arts, the photos, the band diary, his life before the disaster. But was it really a disaster? Planet Earth was in a runaway global warming phase, the so-called Venus effect. But the outlook has changed: winter sports might be coming back.