After failing to complete a deadly serious ritual, twelve-year-old Dominique is banished from his place with the Estorian people and must travel alone to a distant cave, where he will find the voice he has always longed for.
Twelve-year-old Dominique, banished from his tribe of nomadic storytellers, enters the unstable city of Carnillo and is caught up in the rebel movement plotting to overthrow the tyrannical Carnillian leader.