Can a society truly know peace if the individual is not free?

Rose wakes up one morning in her Intellicity-12 cube in Novum Mundi, the unified mega-world made up of all the former nations on Earth, to a dissenting thought: I don't want to get my OC-TAT.

The OC-TAT? A mandatory tracking implant installed in all citizens of Novum Mundi on their 16th birthday.

Influenced by this mysterious thought, Rose embarks on a journey to free the citizens from Imperium, the Novum Mundi government, and particularly it's post-human President, the stunningly beautiful and charismatic V. Along the way, Rose receives the help of Greta and Eli, two mystical elders Rose feels inexplicably connected to. Little does Rose realize that the genesis of this connection, indeed, this mission, was a singular event that happened 70 years in the past.

Moving backwards in time over a 70-year period, Luminous Rose asks the questions of whether or not humans can truly be free in a completely controlled surveillance state—and just how much free will any individual really has.