Arista is from Sylvan, a small town where people conform to any already established practice-- lifestyle, education, religion. Ari, however, has always been the girl who dreams of adventure in the great wide somewhere, never conforming to society's principles for a young woman. No one ever leaves Sylvan-- except runaway Ari who left to pursue a career in Illustration until she is pulled back into Sylvan's people's attempt to drown her in this town forever.