Seventeen-year-old Dara Roux and her two best friends, Mackenzie and Jennifer, the three collectively referred to as the F.I.G.s ( Females of Intellectual Genius) because each has an IQ in the genius range, have just returned from Frascati, Italy. Now, with graduation from Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women behind them, Dara asks her friends to help her locate her birth mother when she learns that she might be living in New York City. Relying on each other's gifts, the determined young women tirelessly go from one address to another in search of Dara's mother. Their determination turns to desperation however, as they encounter a dark hidden society more dangerous and terrifying than they could have imagined.