The population bomb has exploded. Only extreme measures will save our species. Your Gift is our Future. Claris Millar accepts this ideology because she's a law-abiding citizen and because she understands completely the urgent, global need for sacrifice. And yet ... at the same time, having worked in one of the government's Collection Depots, Claris knows that once you go inside a Depot, you never come out. The population bomb has exploded. Only extreme measures will save our species. Your Gift is our Future. Claris Millar accepts this ideology because she's a law-abiding citizen and because she understands completely the urgent, global need for sacrifice. And yet ... at the same time, having worked in one of the government's Collection Depots, Claris knows that once you go inside a Depot, you never come out.