Nina Idi is an illegal third child in a place where families are only allowed to have two children. After being betrayed by the boy she loved and arrested by the population police for exposing other third children, she is angry and confused. Nina knows one thing for sure; she is innocent. But now she is faced with very difficult decisions. She is assigned to betray her other jailmates. If she didn’t cooperate, they would all be killed.  If she betrayed the three, she would be safe and they would be killed. She couldn’t decide so the four children escape from jail. They survive on vegetables and their fake I.D.s for about three weeks. Lee Grant and Mr. Talbot also hate the population police.  They find the four children and now they are going to fight against the population police until the population police finally give up.