Will and Novia are two teenagers betrothed to each other in a future society where all marriages are arranged and the government controls all aspects of people’s lives. The concept of romantic love has been lost in this society, yet somehow Will and Novia fall in love without understanding what it is they are experiencing. When a war destroys the government and society, the sentiment of the people in the new government is so against the arranged marriages of the past that the young lovers are now risking everything by staying together.