Hundreds of years in the
future, in the last living colony on earth, a city called New Babyl,
twenty-four teenage candidates are chosen to take part in an annual musical
competition known as The Exemplar. For all of them it's a chance to write their
names in the history books, but for Aliyah, the independent and adventurous
daughter to a city government official, it's the beginning of an incredible
adventure. Through the discovery of a mysterious archive, she is exposed to
hip-hop, an ancient form of music culture, which will lead her to question
everything she has ever known and change her world forever.
