Noa Ryvverson preferred a numbered world. Life made sense this way. What didn't make sense were his recurring nightmares, and the insomnia that accompanied them. Faced with the possibility of losing his sanity and health, Noa begins to ask questions, finding most of his answers in the form of a secret keeper named Myriam, a young woman he met briefly as a child. Together, he and she are forced to confront their individual histories, along with the history of their city, Euthenia. The path to their future lies balanced precariously between logic and emotion, wilderness and civilization, and the monsters that exist among such conflicts.