In Portland Orgeon three high school friends?Leon Chris and Kayla?spendtheir time skateboarding studying foreign languages and classical music andplotting a sha... » 

In Portland Orgeon three high school friends?Leon Chris and Kayla?spendtheir time skateboarding studying foreign languages and classical music andplotting a shared future that will avoid the superficiality they witness in theadult world around them. There is only one adult they admire whom they suspectmight hold secrets worth knowing. Natalie lives alone in a decrepit traileryet seems happy and to have few concerns. As they befriend her she persuadesthem to harvest copper wire from the high tension electrical lines in thecountryside around the city until one day when there is an accident in whichLeon is electrocuted. He appears to shake it off yet soon?despite his denialsof anything being wrong?his behavior comes to resemble Natalies in many ways.The mystery of what has happened to Leon and to Natalie leads Kayla and Chrison an adventure that takes them into the world of a remarkable group of people.These people live among us and are almost impossible to recognize yet theypossess different needs and different powers. What they do not possess isinsight into their condition or any awareness that they are different. Othersare left to wonder at?and attempt to profit from?the possibilities these peoplecontain. Chris and Kayla are not alone in attempting to study to use andperhaps even to join their ranks. «