2048 brought a breakthrough in technology. Computing power became inexhaustible and AI started managing the world, eliminating sickness, starvation, and death. Mankind had nothing to fear except the Scythes.

12-year-old Goldie Roth is about to separated; from now on she won't have to have a chain around her arm connecting her to an adult. But when a bomb goes off in the city, her separation is postponed a