Life is miserable for motherless, nineteen-year-old Never, her only joy found in the small pockets of time she spends with her hawk Avec, trying to learn how to use her mysterious wings. The same wings that only get her far enough from the ground to make it hurt when she crashes. Alone in the village of her birth that's never felt like home, Nev suffers her father's abuses in silence, save for Avec's support and comfort in all-too-fleeting tea times with the quirky but grandmotherly Nina, her only human friend. But when forced to take a stand against her father's greed, Nev is joined by Avec...