Rostam Intrepid Cannon is 16, and thinks he knows everything, but there's a lot he doesn't know. He doesn't know why his Iranian and Canadian parents named him for two legendary heroes. He doesn't know normal 16-year-olds can't power lift time and a half of their weight and do calculus in their heads.

He doesn't know why a man named Zhuban Ghorbani murdered his father with a blade of energy and wants to hold him hostage.

The sinister looking Men in Black are searching for him, but he doesn't know if they are allies or enemies.

He knows he can find refuge at a place called the Crossing of the Waters, but he doesn't know where it is or how he's going to get there.

He is determined to go back to Iran to rescue his mother, but he doesn't know how to do that.

Rostam has a lot to learn. He doesn't know how little time he has to learn what he needs to know.