In a world where fear is a disease, and disease is control, it took but a single push upon tiresome shoulders (the murdering of a young child by the hands of the "TRITE" terrorist organization) to snap Daniel Sathers - son of the esteemed Admiral Sathers - into quintessence, as he gradually learns that the emotion he has seen as a disease for so long, may be the only way to survive the horrors that lay outside of "The Wall."