Genetically engineered and cloned in secret, the "Hemo Sapiens" have lived isolated on a farm in Manchester for decades—until their extraordinary nature is revealed.

Suddenly these "Bloodsucking Intelligent Humans" find themselves persecuted as dangerous outsiders. As hysteria escalates and mobs attack, the fiercely loyal and mostly innocent family fights for acceptance while struggling to find answers about their shadowy origins and uncertain destiny.

A genetics professor's rash scientific revelation sets off an explosive chain reaction entangling ethics, prejudice and politics. At stake is nothing less than the family's human rights—and what it truly means to belong.

Can these reluctant pioneers overcome fear to integrate into a society both fascinated and repulsed by their very existence? This thought-provoking saga confronts what diversity, progress and being human entail in an increasingly hostile, high-tech surveillance state that is meant to protect but may also oppress.