Can memories of past lives change the world?
The children are remembering. They remember past lives and - even more vividly - the time between their lives. Four families struggle with the implications of their children's memories and the notoriety it brings them, while a network of incalculable power and wealth moves to silence them. But the children know, with crystalline clarity, both the purpose of their lives and something that the rest of the world only hopes: that they cannot die.