Meet Ashland. She's sixteen and has been living in the Divine Lorraine, since she was eleven with five other kids. She knows how to fight, steal and shoot. Life wasn't good for Ash and her friends, but it wasn't terrible. They did odd jobs and helped out at the diner down the street from the hotel. One day, a women kidnaps Ash and brings her to the Academy, a place for kids with "potential" that has people who seem to know a lot more about Ash than they say.