A former killer dies while carrying out a job on Earth—and… ends up in the body of an eleven-year-old boy on a planet of a slaveholding empire of a space-faring civilization. Coming to himself among a pile of wrecked spacecraft, he begins to survive in a world alien to him. His first task is to escape the empire and become a free person. Many obstacles will stand in his way, but he pushes forward—no matter what.