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Alex brings Lena to The Wilds.
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The President and The Consortium identify love as a disease.
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Government closes borders to the US forever.
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Those who were outside the borders were killed.
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Scientists perfect "the cure", a procedure that removes parts of the brain to make one incapable of feeling love.
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Lena's father dies of cancer.
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Lena's mother commits suicide.
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Lena's cousin, Marcia, dies of a sudden heart attack.
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Lena has her evaluation. But it was interrupted halfway through by a man releasing cattle into the building.
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Lena meets the man she saw on Evaluation Day, Alex.
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Lena goes out late at night to Back Cove to meet Aex.
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Lena and her class graduate from St. Anne's Accademy for Girls.
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Lena goes to her friend Hana's house. Hana tells Lena about a party at the abondoned Roaring Brook Farms. Lena goes and meets Alex again.
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Lena and Alex meet at East End Beach. He tells her that he's from The Wilds.
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Lena goes to a second party, this time to warn Hana about a raid. As she gets there, so does the raid. Alex shows up and helps Lena escape.
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Lena and Alex were to meet up at an abondoned house. However, they're ambushed. Alex escapes. But Lena is captured and imprisoned in her own home.
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Alex busts out Lena and the two make a run for the border. Only Lena escapes.