How do you get desperately needed answers when no one is talking? Who do you trust in a place full of criminals, a place where it's easy to mistake friends for enemies and enemies for friends? And how is it possible for one girl to seemingly vanish into thin air, especially when the place is surrounded by sixteen foot high electric fences? When Trigg and his sister, Ren, are sentenced to township 101 for the crime of defending themselves, and Ren suddenly comes up missing, Trigg must ask himself these same questions. Something else he'd like to know is, how do you survive when the flaws of the NAO's justice system has turned a simple punishment into a game of life or death?