A paranoid boy with blue hair chased by a tall man in a robe. This is the scene Cori Lewis witnesses, throwing her simple life into mayhem. She is just trying to get through her freshman year of college; make it to her classes, get good grades, maybe even find a significant other. But after witnessing one of her classmates being pursued by a mysterious man, she and her friends are kidnapped. Hoping they're participating in a psychological experiment, they do their best to assimilate into the boarding school-like environment created by their captors. The longer they stay, the less human their captors appear. It's unsettling, but manageable. Until the killing starts. As the deaths add up, it becomes clear their captors are looking for something among the captives. They're looking for the Order, thirty-six individuals with special powers. After discovering herself to be one of these individuals, Cori must find and work with the others like her to have any chance of making it out alive.