After the Treaty of Emulsification was signed, men and women globally were separated. Men lived in the Northern Hemisphere---now called the Crowning--- whilst women lived in the Thrones of Eterna, a network of cities that spread through the Southern Hemisphere. Every fifty years, The Golden Year was celebrated, where seventeen men and seventeen women met up at the center of the world, the City of Balance (located at the equator); where children were mysteriously produced. But every person that enters never comes back out. That scares Jamie the most, will she ever find out what goes on inside?