A happy young sea otter is framed by her foster AI sister and sent by her family to a brutal “reconditioning academy”. Three years on, she returns as emotionless Unit 143—a perfect, obedient shell. Her family learns the truth too late. Abandoned and broken, she is saved by a scarred sea lion debt collector with a secret past: Unit 001, the academy’s first escapee. Together, the broken child and fugitive enforcer aim to expose the academy and make every family that cast their kids away pay.
