Synopsis: A Kalambrian Tale

Kalambria is a state on the verge of falling apart. Its two nations have never got along, and will never get along. Decades of education campaigns and anti-discrimination laws have failed to leave their mark; in areas where the nations come together, racist militias rule and violence is the order of the day. The desperate government does what it can to force everyone to just get along, but there isn't much they can do. What protects most Kalambrians is the system of segregation in which vast swathes of the country are designated as being for one nation or the other.

From this world comes Sania, an impressionable adolescent from monocultural West Kajirima. She's not ventured beyond the wall separating her from the mixed North since she was nine. Her life is peaceful, even boring.

Then she meets Lenas, a Northerner forced to move west by his parents. He shares with Sania his radical beliefs -- not in racism, but in an end to segregation. Feeling safe behind those tall concrete walls, Sania doesn't want to agree, but as she begins to mingle with members of the other race she realises, they're really much like her.

But Lenas is also a troublemaker, a "dangerous influence" to a government desperately trying to keep control. Even as he and Sania fight for what they believe, the government fights to suppress them. Regardless of one's opinions on race, no one in Kalambria is allowed to oppose the government.