Alyssa is a criminal, and she knows it. The blood of her ex-boyfriend, Christopher, is still drying on her hands when the supreme police force, the Viligants, arrest her and through her into the dreaded Asylum to die, calling her a mad lunatic. But there is a reason why she killed Christopher, a reason based on a power that she just realized she had. Against all odds, she escapes the prison, taking with her a boy named Stephen, who has a secret of his own.