Sixteen years before the start of the series, a spaceship crashes on Earth. A group of humans investigates the accident and finds an alien couple with an infant. With the father already dead and the mother on the verge of dying, the group takes the baby away. In New Mexico, a young girl named Raven wakes up from the visions of the spaceship crash. Even though Raven is skeptical about the nature of her visions, her grandfather believes in them, telling her that it is time for her to go out to the world. In Monument, Oregon, four children are about to make their way to their first day of high school. Tara Markov, a troubled child with an alcoholic mother, Garfield "Gar" Logan, a boy who is worried about skipping two grades, Victor "Vic" Stone, a boy whose mother, Elinore Stone, has high expectations for him, and Joseph "Joey" Wilson, an extremely gifted boy who finds high school boring.
