Felix is an eight-year-old boy with fragile bones, stuck from birth in a terrifying group home. He and his fellow Freaks—wheelchair-bound Mila, lethargic Elsa, and dermatologically challenged Klaus—suffer at the hands of their able-bodied fellow orphans and the cruel, disciplinarian taskmaster, "The Wolf." Ten years later, eighteen-year-old Felix is on the verge of being discharged into the real world when Annika—the flame-haired, fire-eyed, rich girl from the mansion across the way—blows into the orphanage, upsetting norms, destroying plans, and exposing the very real danger all the kids are in at the hands of an evil genius and his unkillable right hand, whose sinister plans for the Freaks reach back to the Third Reich.