Una Rivers is rare. Not the good type of rare that people become envious of one. But the kind of rare where people feel pity for one, and joy they are not them. You see, every one on earth is deaf. Hundreds of years back, something major happened-an event no one seems to know the truth about. Una, with her rare gift of being hearing, decides to find out the truth. Maybe the truth will help her escape her desperate rarity of being hearing.