Alienated from virtually everything that surrounds him, Akeyde Kletser has to decide if he is willing to commit suicide-and take hundreds of others with him-for the sake of his religion and his tribe. His father urges him on, citing their religion's holy texts. They worship the Zan religion, founded 6,000 years earlier by a father who killed his son because God asked him to do so. The Zans' blood enemy, the Kawidtodians, have been killing the Zans for centuries. They've evicted the Zans from their holy land. But now they're migrating from Kawidtodia to America. Akeyde's father wants revenge....