In a future divided into Secular and Non-Secular Quadrants, a crime punishable by death is to cross Quandrants and become a Dedounced. Pod Fifteen has escaped Ilse's cruel regime only to fall intothe hands of a strange Nomadic Tribe. Their charismatic leader, Omar, begins to fill Ned's mind with ideas about his destiny. A possible future that puts the Pod's hard-fought friendships to the test, cuts loyalties to the bone and further exposes character flaws. Nobody is sure who they can trust and what they should do next, but Ned is convinced he must travel home if he has any chance of fulfilling his truth and changing the course of history.