2080 in New York is said to mirror the city of 100 years ago. To the orphans at Autumn Lawn, it exemplifies devastation and inequality. Like most orphans, twelve-year-old Alicia Rodriguez has little to be hopeful for. However, her perspective is altered, when companion, Benny Skater, takes her out on a night she never forgets. Alicia is taken through a world where she discovers misbreeds, The Underground, gang members, and more, creating a realization, in only 24 hours, that the world she thought she knew was an elaborate fabrication.