She is subsequently hanged on the orders of Mars' ArchGovernor Nero au Augustus.
While she is publicly whipped for her crime, Eo sings a forbidden folk tune as a protest against their virtual enslavement. He and his wife Eo are captured after entering a forbidden area and are arrested.
Sixteen-year-old Darrow is a Red, a class of workers who toil beneath the surface of Mars mining helium-3 to terraform the planet and make it habitable. The powerful ruling class of humans has installed a rigid, color-based social hierarchy where the physically superior Golds at the top rule with an iron fist. It has been seven hundred years since mankind colonized other planets.
