Young biologist Arya hits the jackpot when Professor Drake, the world-renowned specialist in regrow medicine chooses her to head a lab in a brand-new research facility. This laboratory is located outside the thriving new city of Nawen in a Middle-Eastern country, formerly the stage of fierce tribal fighting.

Arya is totally taken up by her work on cell reprograming and tissue regeneration in salamanders (axolotls) until, as she slowly gets closer to her boss, she realizes there is much more than meets the eye both in the Nawen research facility and in the desert surrounding it. What terrible secret will she uncover in the purple hills beyond the city and how will this knowledge affect her ? Who can she trust when the situation goes haywire and there is much more than her own survival that is at stake ?