In the midst of the im assable landsca e at the foot of the Al s, a young grou of serious offenders is undergoing an ex eriential educational rogram intended to rehabilitate them. All of a sudden, a member of the rogram dies a violent death. Nobody knows exactly what ha ened, and the youths face a difficult decision. Should they wait for the authorities to recover the body and investigate the crime? Or, esca e and take their fate into their own hands? The grou doesn't have much in common with each other, though one thing unites them; all of them have had really bad ex eriences with the authorities and don‘t ex ect to be treated fairly. Since they don't know who the er etrator is, they only have one o tion: to run. U the mountains, u the highest eaks of the Al s. It seems ho eless until they stumble onto a com lex cave system where they can find shelter from wind, weather, and their ursuers. In their fight against the forces of nature, they form their own society, according to their own rules: the Wild Re ublic