Jian wants nothing more than a quiet life, blessed by the Goddess. But when she reaches her sixteenth birthday and receives a troubling vision, she's forced to leave her village and journey to the Homeland to seek answers straight from the source. Who is the mysterious boy she sees in her dreams? And why does she feel as though she knows him from somewhere?

Accompanied by two young men struggling with inner demons of their own, Jian learns the truth about the precarious balance of power that sustains Humankind, and the inevitable end of everything she knows. She and her companions must choose between staying silent and fighting to change the world for the sake of those who will come after them.