Summary: A young Chinese American woman, Nicky Shen, leaves college and makes a life-changing journey to a Shaolin monastery in China. She returns to her hometown and uses her martial arts skills to fight crime and corruption.

Summary: Seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually-moving train that circles the globe, where class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.