It is the future. ScanMans, an alien race, invades the warring, poverty stricken, and diseased remains of Earth. They exterminate all human adults. They recruit orphans for military training in their subterranean, experimental training facility. Rustle is a young scout in a tight-knit female warrior group of five. They're trained to be aggressive, quick thinking, obedient, but somehow the group is falling apart. When their StarPod is transported to the Living Lab, they all know that it's time to make a run for it, or else they'll be deplugged, finished, dead.