Ryan Scribe is eighteen and has it made. He lacks nothing and doesn't even know anyone who lacks anything. Then he hears a beautiful actress say, "Truth is often stranger than perception," and he begins to look at his world with new eyes. All it takes is one wrong question and he is swiftly banished from the only home he's ever known. Forced to join a band of traveling players, stage actors who look like they could have stepped straight out of Elizabethan England, Ryan begins to question his life, his country and everyone around him. Can he really trust a group of actors? Will his questions...