Astrid and her friends were five, ordinary teenagers on the brink of adulthood--until the day they woke up in the back of a van. Kidnapped during a senior class field trip, the friends are tortured and taken to a modern-day internment camp run by an evil dictator nicknamed The Man, who’s bent on absolute power. The five must now learn to live their lives on the edge of death, where every day is an endless slavery filled with work and pain. Follow the rules and you might live. Break them and face the deadly consequences. Betrayal is behind every brow, and the greatest battle the friends must face is surviving their own minds. But this camp is much more than what it seems. What the five assumed was their singular torment, may in fact be engulfing the world. And, as The Man threatens the lives of her friends one by one, Astrid must make the ultimate sacrifice to save them all.