Farah of Untwa joins a school for training fighters, strategic thinkers and military personnel.It means she escapes her domineering mother and the tedious duties that come with being from a Ngati in the upper echelons of society.But at the school, Farah, an intuitive, is teamed up with fighter Lase, a boy from a lower Ngati.Farah's condescension and disturbing hallucinations and Lase's resentment test their partnership.But just when they finally seem to be working well together, the school is attacked by other-worldly forces.Farah and Lase must use their skills to fight the alien invaders and save their people from obliteration.