The rain hasn't stopped in years. The skies are controlled. The machines are watching. Fourteen-year-old Nick has never known the sun, only the rhythm of storms and the silence of unanswered questions. He doesn't know who his mother truly was. He doesn't know why he feels different - why machines seem to hesitate around him. But when he finds a hidden message and a strange key, everything beneath the ruins of the old world - and following it may reveal a truth more dangerous than he's ready for.