"In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix must first burn" (Octavia E. Butler). In a reality where humans can shift into animals, seven find themselves on the top of a criminal list. How they got there, they don't know, but all they do know is that they are being hunted, one of them is the ember of a new world, and that they are the only ones that can change the views of people who have been drowned in lies and warped truths.