In a long run where water has vanished from our planet we look for a set of kids, mostly teenagers, who live in an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the newest Earth. The group under consideration plays with a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite excellent. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to attract them by the government . Finding an orb of power that is unique, they find it has unusual effects on these. They escape out of the orphanage (on skates) and attempt to cross the wasteland searching for a place they can live free as the stormtroopers search for these and the orb.