This is Kyle Striker's story. After some terrible events he finds three tapes to record his story. Kyle Striker was attending a yearly talent show that his village always holds. His friend Danny was performing his hypnotism act and needed four volunteers. Kyle, Lily, and two adults volunteer. When they wake up from the hypnotism everyone in the village is frozen mid action. They have no idea what has happened but that they must not have been affected due to the fact that they were under hypnosis at the time. But when the village wakes an hour later they seem to have changed. His parents call in the local doctor except that the phones are no longer working. He over hears that he is a 0.4 and is now irrelevant. What happened to all the people while they were frozen? This explains his story. The format of the book is someone translating the tapes onto a book after the event. I loved the format. Very interesting quick read(231 pages)