Mara has a secret. She lives in the slums of a country called Regian, where she has lived for almost all her life. In Regian, no one can do much; there is a restriction on media, a curfew, and the leaders of Regian are known to hate the place neighboring them that they call “the Hinterlands”. The Regianites are led to believe that Regian is the best place in the world. Mara highly doubts this and is sick of this restricted environment. She longs for freedom.
One day her best friend Adelaide meets Thayer Vaclav, son of the president of Regian. This leads Mara through a series of events that begin to change her spiteful attitude towards rich kids and makes her doubt the true intentions of the government. Will Mara find out what they’re hiding? Or will she shy away in fear of them finding out her secret?