In a ruined future split between those who have and those who do not, America has contracted like a singularity into a single city. There, citizens live under a divided society, split by five walls. At the center, their depraved leader, Gideon, rules with the iron fisted reach of propaganda and an oppressive governmental agency.Outside the city walls Penny, an adopted young girl, farms one ranch of many that provides food to the citizens of Mercury. There she has learned self relia...