Shane lives on the bright side of a hectic world, on the power starved governments good side. He's nothing more than a humble newsboy in a world of humans with super abilities or so he thinks... Riley has no interest in saving the world. She lives in a wrecked car yard with her band of discarded teens with mutant abilities. She harnesses the ability to control water, using it to hydrate her friends and nothing more. What is she willing to do to protect her friends? When an old man's prophecy whispers of a prophecy, a prophecy full of wonder and hope for the future, no one is easily convinced the war on "mutants" will ever end. A boy with the power of fire soon arrives, filling them all with hope their governments genocide will end...