Lily is a photojournalist in search of the "animal people" who supposedly haunt the city's darkest slums. Hank is a slum dweller who knows the bad streets all too well. One night in a brutal incident their two lives collide--uptown Lily and downtown Hank each with a quest and a role to play in the secret drama of the city's oldest inhabitants. For the animal people walk among us. Native Americans call them the First People but they have never left and they claim the city for their own. Not only have Hank and Lily stumbled onto a secret they've stumbled into a war. And in this battle for the city's soul nothing is quite as it appears.
