What would you choose? One person's life or protecting the whole community? What if that one person was your sister?
Despite unprecedented global warming and mandatory genetic typing, school, friends, dance, and football occupy much of two teens' lives. With the threat of a worldwide flu epidemic, their parents send them to a remote desert community. Jema’s sister contracts the virus, and Jema and Troy must decide whether to compromise the group to save one. Can they get a cure in time? If so, will the others take them back?