When the United States and the United Kingdom have a falling out, captured teens from the UK are sent into a small towns as prisoners. Circumstances are quite strange in the small town of Middlebury. There are no adults, and the "soldiers" there call themselves the "masquerades". The prisoners are placed in Middlebury, where two fortunate teens, a Scottish boy named James and a British boy named Aaron meet their lead masquerade, a girl from Michigan named Holland, but usually referred to as "Swan".