Seven hundred years in the future, the Hive is ruled by women and all boys are sent down into the warrens beneath the city to work until age twenty. In the month of their twentieth birthday, the boys are brought above ground to meet with their genetically-matched mates then they are heartlessly slaughtered, their corpses recycled for the betterment of the Hive. One young man seeks to defy the odds and be one of the only boys to escape the horrific life and death inside the female-dominated utopian society. With the help of his friend, Logan 416 faces the world outside the Hive and the ever-present oppression under female rule.