How can we live in the ruins of capitalism? This is the question Tsing asks. And whom is a more suited guide than the Matusake mushroom. In a series of fieldworks, Tsing explores the commodity chains related to the mysterious delicacy Matusake. A mushroom that neither survives in "natural forests" nor in one's, but rather in the ruins of the latter. They live in our ruins and we must also learn to do so, the people that pick it are often such people, and the stories they tell must be a guide for the coming storm.