Worldbuilding:
Contemporary America. All characters are anthropomorphic animals, but the world operates on real human rules—money, privilege, visas, prejudice. All of it.
Four college graduates from different backgrounds set out on a road trip together.
Caspian — Coyote
The "extra son" of an upper-middle-class white family. Has resources but no inheritance. Can spend, but can't hold power.
Lila — Pronghorn
A white American woman on the climb. Every move is calculated. Her dignity and her self-interest are constantly at war—and she can't make peace with either.
Jake — Raccoon
A Chinese international student. A pragmatist from an outsider middle class. His way of handling things is nothing like how most people in the States do it.
Karim — Sand Cat
The wealthy son of a Middle Eastern family from a turbulent country—yet somehow the most invisible of the group. Money doesn't mean everything in America. Status is what matters. And he knows it.
