An environmental crisis forces the government to create two classes of citizens: the resettled ‘arids’ who occupy the recently exposed lake bed of the Great Lakes, and the Old Shores who protect what remains of the fresh water supply by preventing the newly settled citizens from infiltrating the established neighborhoods. Juliet is on the eve of reaching adulthood when she falls in love with a New Shore pirate broadcaster who challenges the assumptions upon which her culture depends. Will she defy her widowed father, a detective whose job is to protect the new order? Will she fall suddenly for his partner, a transplant from the new settlement area? Will adulthood inspire new alliances, or will she do her part to defend what her father devoted his life to preserve?

Radio & Juliet re-imagines some of Shakespeare’s themes in a cautionary tale with shades of George Orwell, 1950’s science fiction, amid the workings of an elusive crime spree only Juliet can solve.