Felix is an eight-year-old boy with a debilitating condition, stuck from birth in a terrifying group home. He and his fellow Freaks—wheelchair-bound Mila, dermatologically challenged Klaus, and lethargic Elsa—suffer at the hands of their able-bodied fellow orphans and the cruel, disciplinarian taskmaster known as the Wolf. Ten years later, eighteen-year-old Felix is on the verge of being discharged into the real world when Annika—the flame-haired, fire-eyed, rich girl from the mansion across the way—blows into the orphanage, upsetting norms, destroying plans, and exposing the very real danger all the kids are in at the hands of an evil genius and his seemingly immortal right hand, whose sinister plans for the Freaks reach back to history's most horrific crimes.