At the age of ten, Takeru thinks he knows everything about life and finds it boring. Lorna feels trapped in a life without opportunities and wants to escape. Zeb spent his life being discriminated and underrated and he is desperate to find a place where he belongs. Obsidian is constantly in trouble, but always bailed out by his father's suffocating power. For better or worse, their lives are about to be turned upside down...
Takeru, Lorna, Zeb and Obsidian are four kids from four different Time Colonies that are affected in one way or another by the great catastrophe that disconnected the Colonies from the Main Time Period, and find themselves running from a corrupt government that wants to use them as scapegoats for their own failures. Amidst learning to trust only each other, survive in a hostile environment and always on the run, they uncover the truth behind their society.