Two halves of a country are at cold war. A twelve-year-old goes missing. Ryder Markham's world moves too fast, leaving him in the dust. He is the illusion of cyborgs and skyscrapers and photoshoots, shrouding the painful secrets of a lifetime of loneliness and a decades-long power struggle. Griffin Hawthorne fears that she will never amount to anything more than an unsuccessful seamstress. Tied down by a society plagued with restrictions and a family burden too heavy to bear, she longs for a world of underground clubs and mystery, where anyone can throw the punches. United by a mission to find a missing boy, their meeting defies borders, offering them the chance to discover shockingly different worlds beyond their own.