Will people change with time? What will the struggle for power be like seven hundred years from today? Where does the humiliation come from: from the other's enslavement of you or from your submission to the idea of ¿¿being a slave? What would change in the balance of good and evil if you had the opportunity to be in the place of your enemies: live among them, and see life from their perspective? Many questions are raised by Pierce Brown in his vision of the world of the future, which seems more cruel, but does not differ in its laws from our current world. He tells the beginning of the story of Darrow, who belongs to the red class, the lowest class of the future society painted in colors. Like the people of his class, he works every day to make the surface of Mars a habitable place for life. He goes on dreaming of a better future for his children, believing that all classes of this society, including the golden leaders; They work for this dream, but he soon discovers the betrayal to which his people were exposed, and the illusion they live for. Motivated by the pain of a lost love, he embarks on a journey of revenge in order to overthrow his enemies, not even becoming one of them deters him.