The Wraeththu were a mutation: quasi-human, strikingly beautiful, telepathic and enmeshed in strange and exotic rituals. Spurning the degenerate society that spawned them, they challenged Mankind's waning supremacy to the limits, and fought for a future that promised justice and equality - their justice, their equality.

Pellaz - naive, adolescent - refused to believe the Wraeththu existed. Until exotic, striking-looking Cal 'called' him. Under Cal's spell Pellaz abandoned home and family, and set of on a bizarre odyssey, both physical and spiritual, into the very heart of the Wraeththu mystery. And it soon became very clear that a special destiny awaited Pellaz.