Eight generations after the Cyborgs sought to eradicate anger with their DNA-altering serum, the planet Ziran and its colony face an existential crisis. The inhabitants are dying, their bodies and life-sustaining crops are stricken by radiation poisoning, and their society's once peaceful structure is collapsing. In a desperate grasp for survival, they turn to an ancient ritual creating a child who is more god than human.
The future of the settlement now lies in the hands of Zosimos, who matures at an inhuman rate and displays exceptional mental abilities. But when he's exposed to a plant that reverses the side effects of the Cyborg's serum, Zosimos experiences anger for the first time and realizes his power far exceeds those around him. Zosimos succumbs to a murderous rage that leads him to enforce a tyrannical rule upon the people of Ziran.
The planet's salvation resides in the hands of a girl named Vallena, and a sage, Kelv, who has sworn himself to a violence-free existence. Kelv's DNA may hold the key to curing the radiation poisoning, and with Vallena's discovery of a cure for Zosimos's rage comes a seed of hope. Will Kelv's lessons, Zosimos's new morality, and the secret hidden by Zosimos's father be enough to alter the dark forecast for Ziran's people? Or will a force they never bargained for mean the end of everything they created on their peaceful planet?
