In Orien, the government is everything. They pick your name, your friends, your pets. No choice is your own, but the government had people convinced that this is the best and easiest way of life. Lillian Montgomery believes in them fully. That is until the government kills her parents and she is sent to an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. There, she meets Pop. A kind elderly old man who treats her like his daughter. Lillian is perfectly happy and has almost completely gotten over the loss of her parents, when the government interferes yet again, and Pop is arrested. Lillian, deciding she can't take anymore loss, flees to the woods, and changes what the government has made her. She spends weeks planning an attack on the government, and when it finally comes in to action, she finds that she is not alone.