After breaking into the Ark's security system, sixteen year old Payte Davenport was locked up in the Skybox, a juvienile confinement for delinquents to wait for their eighteenth birthday where they will be pardoned or more commonly floated for their crimes. Ten months of solitary later, the council decided to send the children of the Skybox to Earth, a radiation filled wasteland as they believed, to supply more air for the rest of the Ark. What will Payte do when she is faced with terrors of mankind and the Earth weighing on her, and what will happen to the children of the Ark as they try to survive on a planet that was thought to be uninhabitable for 97 years?