Clementine Byers is looking for her last line of defense. An insulin
dependent diabetic, Clementine struggles to discover her life's purpose.
Throughout college, she experiences boys whose dispose her like old
syringes, a trail of career paths that lead nowhere, and a church group
that promises to cure her from the disease that has haunted her
lifetime. When she thinks that she has explored every possible avenue
for happiness, Clementine finds hope in a roller derby team, a Canadian
holistic medicine specialist, and a star jammer that she remembers from
childhood summers at camp. Although she trusts the Lower Your Blood
Sugar Naturally! pills hawked to her by the specialist, Clementine
learns to let go of hope. As she morphs into a hard-hitting roller derby
pivot known as Xana Doom, Clementine falls in love with derby, herself,
and so much more.