Alice Carmicheal has lived in District 11 for her entire life doing the same over and over again. A boring routine of school and being mistreated by her mother and her twin Marie. Now that the Hunger Games were approaching, Alice thought that her life was finally going to change. During the reaping, Marie's and the son of the mayor Elliot McAnston names are caller and now all hell has broke loose. Alice had woken up the next morning to the peacemakers dragging her away and not her twin.