Slow River

"Slow River" is set in the near future where all water is controlled by a few powerful corporations who recycle it with advanced biochemical technology. Lore's family owns one of those corporations.

She wakes in the rain in an alley, left by kidnappers who had held her for a huge ransom from one of the most powerful and richest families in the world. Badly hurt, exhausted, and without her ID chip, she is found and taken in by the thief Spanner. She stays with Spanner, living with the identity of a dead woman, and joining her in a life of illegal scams and prostitution. It's either this, or return to her privileged life in a dysfunctional family of sexual abuse...