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"All I'm saying is I can give you some peace of mind.
You'll know your eyes won't go to some lowlife or nothin'."
The other guard snickers. "Piece of mind. Good one."

the bill of life permits parents to give up their child between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, where the child will be sent to a "harvest camp" and his or her body will be dismembered and divided into the bodies of people who need their parts.

this is the solution to the heartland war, a civil war between pro-life and pro-choice groups. this is the solution. the child doesn't actually die, because they are kept alive inside someone else's body, and 100% of them is used. teenagers can't stand the thought of being unwound.

once their parents authorize it, however, it's done. some of them run. some of them are lucky enough to happen upon groups of other unwinds who can keep them safe.

connor and risa run the graveyard, a community of peaceful action. they want to rid the world of unwinding without hurting anyone. penelope and carson run serenity falls, a community of calm existence. they just want to make it to seventeen. beckett runs camp anarchy, a community of bitter rage. they want revenge, and they want it immediately.

the communication between the three communities is usually slim, though they do know of each other's existence, and they send messages along with the unwinds they release into the world. the messages don't always make it, and they choose not to think about the dreadful reason behind that circumstance.

there is tension there, however. connor and beckett are in disagreement about how the the bill of life should meet it's demise - connor wants peace while beckett screams for violence. the carmichaels choose to stay far, far away, though they know that the day will come where one of the other camps will ask them to pick a side.

everyone is only after one common cause, anyway; the bill of life has got to go.