15-year-old Lotus lives in poverty, doing dangerous tasks for her town each day. She works to protect her younger sisters, Tulip, Daffodil, and Blossom, from the deadly war raging far from her hometown. But soon, she finds herself in the middle of the raging war, striving to protect herself and her sisters in the process. But as she falls in love with someone from the other side of the war and befriends his sister, whom he is trying to protect, too, she must choose where her loyalties lie.