Bar code

Kayla's life, her identity, and her freedom are threatened when she refuses to get the bar code tattoo which will erase her status as an exile.

After receiving her required bar code tattoo, Grace returns home to find her family gone and soon learns that she was adopted.

Things for Kayla progress from bad, as in being told her computer grades disqualify her from an art scholarship, to worse, when she refuses to accept an identification bar code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday.