Kayla is ostracized at school because she refused to get the required tattooed bar code and now she and her family must run to avoid the dangers threats against them.
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.
In the near future, when Kayla refuses to be barcoded like all other seventeen year olds, she finds herself an outcast. Soon, dangerous things start happening to her family and she is forced to run for her life.
