A nation is failing its young. Teenagers falling through the cracks. Minnie is sick of her foster placement, and Jake wants to escape his violent stepfather. Under a radical new care scheme, the government implants a chip in the brains of vulnerable youths, claiming it will give them a fresh start. The chips turns thought patterns into words, supposedly to help them recover from trauma. But is the truth best kept hidden? And at what cost is it extracted? The revolutionary technology of the Spectrotext vibrates against a life of nightclubs, drugs, abuse, and authorities. When a friend dies in mysterious circumstances, Minnie and Jake race to search deeper for the truth, before their lives spin out of control.