To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract, to pay your parents' debts and buy your childrens' future. Elisha's family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family's debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug. Too bad his contract has been purchased by Alexander Bishop III, whose ultra-rich family is the brains behind Dociline - but when Elisha refuses the drug, Alex is determined to turn Elisha into the perfect Docile without it.