Ashes, Ashes

The year is 2052: Two young lovers flee for their lives as Doomsday descends upon Earth. This was to be the happiest day of young Blanche Rouget's life. In Paris, the now-electronic city of love, Blanche had been about to make her debut as a star. Then, abruptly, the Black Emperor of South America had told the world of the missiles already racing northward. Panic had broken forth. And then had come the real terror. A vast cloak of darkness had descended over the earth. And Blanche was hurled into a world gone mad in its death-throes.