On the morning of Henry Ludd’s 13th birthday, the power goes out. No phones, no news, and planes are literally falling out of the sky. Henry’s father was away from the family farm during the incident, and he has not returned. As the outage stretches on, everything begins to fall apart.

Four months later, the electricity still hasn’t come back. While Henry’s family is protected in their walled compound with wind turbines fueling their electricity, the rest of their area has suffered and Henry’s father still hasn’t been found.

Determined to find him, Henry ventures out with a trading crew to the zoo where his dad was last seen. After the truck is hijacked and Henry is left behind, he’s forced to travel alone through the unruly world of the Switch. But his journey home will lead him to cross paths with the people who took his dad and have been trying to take over his family’s land and resources ever since.