Dit is die jaar 2137 en die bots regeer onder leiding van hul hoofraam, die Terra Mater. Die natuur is aan die herstel en die mens het afgeskuif na die heel laaste posisie in die voedselketting. Thandi word sedert baba-dae deur die KI-robot, Sarah, in die Fort grootgemaak. Tydens haar sewentiende verjaardag-uitstappie word sy en Sarah deur die wrede Geeloog en sy bosmense ontvoer. Geeloog, aspirerende leier van die streek, soek inligting oor die bots en hy sal dit kry, al moet hy haar martel. Thandi ontsnap en verdwaal in die woud vol wilde diere met Geeloog op haar spoor. Dit is hier waar Markus, ¿ ontsnapte Fort-inwoner en Thandi se kleintydvriend, haar vind. Markus neem haar na die strandmense vir veiligheid waar sy ingelig word oor haar ware herkoms en die bots se verraad. Hier daag die bosmense en die bots byna gelyk op met dieselfde doel - om Thandi te kom haal. Na ¿ konfrontasie, en om menselewens te spaar, stem Thandi in om saam met bots terug te keer na die Fort. Die voortbestaan van die planeet, die mensdom en die bots word skielik Thandi se verantwoordelikheid en almal wil hê sy moet hulle vertrou. Wat is haar doel op aarde en hoekom het die bots destyds haar lewe gespaar? Hierdie en ander tergende vrae maal deur haar kop terwyl sy haarself te midde van die planeet se grootste oorlewingstryd nog bevind - dié tussen mense, die bots en die Terra Mater asook die gevaar wat agter die maan skuil. = = = It is the year 2137, and the bots rule the earth under the leadership of their mainfraim, the Terra Mater. Nature is recovering, and humanity has been relegated to the very bottom of the food chain. Thandi has been raised by Sarah, an AI robot, in the Fort since infancy. During an outing on her seventeenth birthday, she and Sarah are abducted by the ruthless Geeloog and his forest people. Geeloog, an aspiring leader of the region, wants information about the bots, and he will get it, even if he has to torture her. Thandi escapes, only to find herself lost in a forest teeming with wild animals, with Geeloog hot on her trail. This is where Markus, a former Fort resident who escaped and Thandi's childhood friend, finds her. He takes her to the beach people for safety, where she learns the truth about her origins and the bots' betrayal. The forest people and the bots arrive almost simultaneously, each with the same goal: to take Thandi. After a confrontation, and to spare human lives, Thandi agrees to return to the Fort with the bots. Suddenly, the survival of the planet, humanity and the bots rests on Thandi's shoulders, and everyone wants her to trust them. What is her purpose on Earth, and why did the bots spare her life all those years ago? These and other tantalising questions swirl through her mind as she finds herself caught up in the planet's greatest struggle for survival yet: the battle between humans, the bots and Terra Mater, as well as the danger lurking behind the moon.