As the play begins, Marisol narrowly escapes a vicious attack by a golf club-wielding madman while traveling home on the subway.
The war in heaven spills over into New York City, reducing it to a smoldering urban wasteland where giant fires send noxious smoke to darken the skies, where the moon has not been seen in months, where the food has been turned to salt, and water no longer seeks its level.
Alone, without her protector, Marisol begins a nightmare journey into this new war zone where she is attacked by a man with an ice cream cone demanding back pay for his extra work on the movie Taxi Driver.
As the action builds to a crescendo, the masses of homeless and displaced people join the angels in the war to save the universe.
[3] Some find Rivera's play to follow not only in the tradition of magical realism but also of the Theatre of the Absurd as defined by Martin Esslin.