"I watch my mother without touching my own fork. She picks up a piece of white meat and raises it to her mouth. Just as she’s about to eat, a siren goes off…"

Iris loses everything when war takes his mother—and his life. In his dying moments, he sees memories that are not his own: a white-haired woman calling him “Ziak” with her last breath.

Every sound shouting, every smell stings, every color overwhelms his mind. Looking down at the reflecting water, he sees another person: tattoo markings across his whole body and endless purple eyes.

Struggling with grief, mystery, and his new identity, Iris must decide: will he live quietly under chains, or rise against the world?

Reborn as one of the despised Avi.
A story of survival, vengeance, and the fight for freedom begins.