A model society demonstrates perfection, even in those in chooses to make defective. For engineered humans Nico and Twostar this means a life of degeneracy, crime and punishment. But a rogue agent put an extra dose of survival in their mix, so when they're offered a dangerous technology to escape from gang life, they take it. No matter the price. But the stakes are higher than advertised. Murder. Betrayal. Madness. Resurrection. If they're lucky.