Calla meets fellow rebel Marisol, and the two women become lovers while holed up in a deserted cabin, determined to give birth before they’re caught by the authorities. After her doctor says she must have an abortion, she goes on the run. Despite her fears that the blue ticket means she is unsuited for motherhood (“Failure to nurture,” she imagines a doctor writing on her chart), Calla nevertheless manages to remove her birth control device and becomes pregnant. When she reaches her 30s, she begins wanting a child.
Calla draws a blue ticket at age 14, and as she becomes a woman, she happily explores her untethered sexual freedom. White means they must bear children blue means they must use birth control. Once girls begin to menstruate, they go to a lottery clinic and draw a ticket.
Mackintosh’s haunting, dystopian tale (after The Water Cure) explores the emotional fallout of forced birth control in a near-future society.
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