"Province is one of the last safe countries on this Earth. Or so they tell us." Alize lives in Metro, the capital of Province. It's the year 2048 and her 17th birthday. Today she is to be Marked and tattooed with her Phase. Will she be Ergo, like 96.5% of Province's population? Will she be Iphis, the least common at barely 0.5%, like her best friend Henry? Or one of the other three? Soon, Alize and Henry are thrown into the middle of the Revolution and find themselves among new friends who show them the truth about the small country ruled by censorship and propaganda against its own citizens.