As rumors spread about an experiment going wrong triggering all natural disasters at once, infants are taken taken to a sanctuary where they are trained to grow up and find a solution to the faulty experiment. 12 years have passed and the adults sent with the infants looked for human life and stumbled upon a girl that has apparently survived alone for 12 years. She talks to no one but Berlin, a boy that shows her the colors in the dull shade of gray world that he has been living in. But he knows that the girl, Alaska, has brought a new shade of color from the gray scale: Silver.