In a world of perfectionism, Ophelia isn't fond of her country's ideals. At the age of 10, every citizen of Melrose receives an operation that "cures" them of all evils. Somehow the operation doesn't affect Ophelia and she remains the only unaffected citizen of Melrose, that she knows of. When she meets Marcus, another unaffected, they soon realize that their world isn't so perfect after all.