Set in a fractured, post-Second Civil War Austin, Texas, Scattershot portrays the adventures of Azure—a resourceful, emotionally guarded, and resilient butch lesbian—who risks everything to rescue her partner, Lily, from a state-run "Renaturalization" program. Neural implants, psychotropic drugs, and virtual reality are just some of the tools the program’s scientists use to reshape to conformity the identities of those who act in opposition to the values of the Christian Nationalist state government. Lily is subject to horrific reconditioning while Azure struggles for survival in the Eastern Red Zone (ERZO) in an area controlled by a local warlord. When out one night scavenging Azure and her friend Bolt capture an offline rogue cyber dog to scrap for data and parts—setting off a chain of events that force Azure and her chosen family to face head on the brutality of an authoritarian regime and the cost of love in a fractured world.