Ayla: Echoes of Dissent

New Babel sorts its people by altitude. The Heights have clean streets, automated cars and manicured parks. The Depths have the smog, the machinery and the shift.

Ayla is from the Depths. Her father is dead. The family eats because she works.

What begins as endurance becomes refusal, and what begins as refusal becomes organisation — in a city built so that the people who hold it up can never see the top of it.