When a sixteen year old member of a race of shapeshifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.

Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.