An acceptance letter arrives for Ito Keita from Bell Liberty Academy — one of the most selective schools in the country. Keita is, by any fair measure, an ordinary student. Why the school chose him is a question no one can answer. He survives the transfer through what appears to be luck and some unclassifiable quality that seems to follow him around, and arrives to find himself in a student body of the genuinely exceptional. What it is about him that belongs here, and whether anything does, is the question that shapes his entire time at the academy.