A dystopy story: A young man lives in a city of the future (year 2242). He is an outcast - a mutant with four ears but nobody is supposed to detect it so he tries to hide it under a hoodie. He is trying to find a way to leave Earth in a spaceship. Meanwhile, he scours the city, which is full of futuristic skyscrapers and a few flying cars. It's snowing/storming/raining as he roams the city. He may have a woman with him who is not his girlfriend. It might be at night. He is a good-looking fellow with a good figure, but not too overly sexy. He might have a gun as at the end of the novel he must shoot another man to get a place in a spaceship, saving his life. The mood is grim but not deadly.