Citizens of the main island enjoy fulfilling and privileged lives, attended to by the obliging support staff who live on a neighbouring island, The Annex.
There, something is stirring. People are beginning to question their place in the social order - and there is talk of an underground resistance, who call themselves The Arrivalists.
Meanwhile, life for Prosperans is perfection - and when it's not, their bodies are sent to the smallest of the three islands: a mysterious facility named The Nursery, to have their memories wiped and to restart life afresh.
Proctor Bennett is a Ferryman, who shepherds the soon-to-be retired across into the unknown.
But Proctor has a secret: he has been dreaming. Something that The Designer's system has made impossible. And in these strange dreams - of the stars and the sea - he feels someone is trying to tell him something...
