On a mission to find meaning and a home for himself, Relevance, as Newearth's first tribrid humanoid, founds LEAP Laboratories in partnership with an angry geneticist who harbors dystopian dreams. Together they populate the woodlands with sentient animals called Animans, but when their goals diverge, Relevance finds himself trying to stop the very operation he brought into being. Haunting childhood rejection hurls him into reckless actions and blinds him to the harm he does to others. When his patients suffer tragically, he searches for answers and discovers that a grim truth offers more hope than an alluring lie. Family is more than DNA.