In a near future where freedom has been outlawed in the city's outskirts, a tormented teenager, about to be forcibly conscripted, is pressured to leave behind everything he loves, facing his fears and the lurking violence as his only hope of escaping the war. The city's periphery has been besieged and controlled, serving as a concentration camp where young people, separated from their families, are raised to serve a strict military regime that governs the area.