Teal Elenny's year has finally come to enter the Eclynsom. Every year, those of seventeen years of age are required to take the test. Half of the test-takers don't come out after the two-month test.
Entering the Eclynsom with her boyfriend, Darin, and hundreds of other seventeen year olds, it's a fight for their lives.

The Council is looking for something, but nobody knows what. After all these years, will they finally find what they are looking for?