Andre, Mase and Jan are teenagers in Techcorp, the walled city on the flanks of the Dublin mountains that look down on an old Dublin that has been flooded by the rising ocean. Andre, the leader, decides he doesn't want to spend his life in the oppressive technophile society of Techcorp. He intends to get out and make his way westwards across a land that, ravaged and depopulated by the Disease. As well as being a gripping story, this book also deals with important issues such as the search for truth, the nature of society, the challenge of friendship and of our relationship with the earth.