Back in 2007, a seventeen-year-old Chicago high school student, Stephen Brush, was anxious about a couple of things on his mind; a National Competition for the Turbo Cycle video game, coming up that Saturday, and his girlfriend's insistence that he spend some time with her. These issues take a natural course and work out better than Stephen could hope for. Yet success in this competition places Stephen among an elite group of gamers--who are abducted. Stephen wakes to find himself with these gamers, in a place so unbelievable and restrictive, at first he thinks he is dreaming or on another planet; the truth of course is even harder to believe. This place of isolation is Sightmen City, formerly an advanced nuclear shelter for "important" U.S. citizens, but in the year 3075, it is the home of a people who speak with their eyes, in what is referred to as "the Sightmen way." Stephen's place in their society becomes his fate, which changes the whole world in an unexpected twist.