Julyena has spent her entire life on Tarin, working day in and day out, having to sneak around to see her family, and worrying about her brother. She is safe in the knowledge that she is provided for by the Tarinai guards, even when they are just using her as part of their mass workforce. But when a spaceship crashes through the sky, she realizes her life is not as secure as she thinks. She meets Reid, the pilot of the ship, who tells her things about her world that she never would have supposed to be possible.