The city state of Carcere huddles against the ocean, its encompassing wall stands like an impenetrable bulwark against the inland wilds. The insulated population is precariously divided between those that have and those that have not.Samuel Daily, a laborer in the rough and tumble city storehouse, struggles to find equilibrium between morality and the pressures of his malicious peers. His family is all he loves and he endures injustice, violence, and corruption to sustain an illusion of normality, hiding his scabbed knuckles and purple bruises from his mother, father, and sister.Despite what he may think, Samuel is not the only member of his family with secrets. Like maggots in a wound, all secrets must come to light.