Disobedience means starvation. When six bombs shake six continents, six minutes apart killing millions of people, many believe it is the beginning of the end of the world. They are mistaken. World leaders decide the only way to keep the citizens of the world safe, is for everyone to have a barcode permanently imprinted on their foreheads. Lydia Murphy, a 17-year-old girl from Alton Stine, a village on the continent of Danglen, is forced to go on a journey after she loses everything. For Lydia, alone in this new world, a life worth living demands free will.