Description:

Some time after an atomic war, in the rural civilization that remains, David Strorm grows up surrounded by a strict and ruthless hatred of mutation - a mutation that, as a secret telepath, the boy must hide from his strict father, and from society at large, or face banishment to the Fringes. When David meets a young girl named Sophie and discovers that she's also hiding a mutation he promises to keep her secret - and her fate provides a warning about what may lie ahead for David and his newborn sister Petra...