Earth has been abandoned for a City in space, Babel, the monument to Mankind's greatness and ingenuity. Of the remaining occupants of humanity's former home, Daniel Gaal rises every morning to pray to a forgotten God and to dig trenches for water alongside everyone else in his territory. In a raid he, the territory master's daughter, and two young boys are taken to serve in the Viceroy of Babel's court, a world that knows nothing of his God and his customs. Little does he know that his presence in this City will affect the course of history, for himself and everyone he knows.