A motley group of mixedblood pilgrims travels across a post-apocalyptic U.S.
Tropes in this work include:
- After the End: Government and society collapse in the U.S. when people run out of gas.
- Culture Police: Native American education is banned in universities.
- Feudal Future: People wall themselves up, similar to medieval towns.
- Healing Hands: A woman's breast cancer gets cured when Saint Plumero lays his hands on the affected area.
- I Love the Dead: Casket does this to all of the evil gambler's victims.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The pilgrims learn that the meal they shared with the priests was actually the flesh of one of the priests who died.
- Interspecies Romance: Lilith Mae and her boxer dogs.
- Mushroom Samba: Bigfoot takes drugs and falls in love with a statue at a park.
- Scavenger World: The character struggle to find gas.
