Ten years ago, Briar’s body turned down a government mandated vaccine referred to as SAP (Serum to Progress Progressivism), developed to erase God from the mind. Briar was seven years old. She’s been on house arrest ever since. Today, simply weeks from becoming a legal adult, Briar continues to be non-responsive to her necessary SAP injections. Along with her rapidly approaching eighteenth birthday looms a grim reality: by purchase of the Commandment, adulthood means institutionalization for those resistant to SAP. In a matter of times, Briar will become a permanent citizen of the ARC – a facility shrouded in dark rumors of torture, experimentation, and death. Her only alternative is to simply accept a last minute ultimatum to become laboratory test subject matter for a new God-dissolving serum. With ten years of solitude behind her and a lifetime of confinement before her… what does she have to eliminate? Except probably her soul.