Twin towers are decorating the Manhattan skyline, paragons of oppression and destruction. Down below, in the Stone Desert's gray emptiness people are desperately striving to survive, to live a semblance of a life. Lewis Talbot and Carla Wolf are not who they are. They know this. But they don't know why, at least he doesn't. They are growing up. Carla is only eighteen, but she has already traveled the world, in search of what...