** spoiler alert ** 
 following from Giver #1 - another post apocalyptic village - this one more medieval - harsh struggle for most 
 a young crippled girl identified by the elders as a skilled weaver is brought to the relative luxury of the Edifice to learn and work, meeting a similarly gifted carver and a young singer 
 grows to suspect that the elders are using their gifts to define the future path of the society 
 rather than leave to join a more 'enlightened' community with her estranged father, she decides to stay and change the village's detiny