A young girl named Cassandra witnesses her father being shot to death. American society begins to suffer as the inefficient educational system threatens to lead to an entire generation of obese children with below average IQ’s, leading to a lack of innovation and the stagnation of America’s economy.
Jenny lives with her terminally ill mother and to pay medical bills she accepts a job as chaperone for intellectually gifted children from the Posterity Project, a programme designed to make smart children smarter. Jenny meets fellow chaperones Tiggs and Darby in the programmes underground facility which runs in complete darkness, requiring the use of Virtual Reality glasses to see, also providing the children access to their lessons. Jenny meets ARIAL (Augmented Reality Information Advanced Learning) the artificial intelligence who runs the facility. Jenny, Tiggs and Darby are warned that, outside of their physical needs, the children are not to be distracted from their lessons or their employment will be terminated.