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Eternia is a utopian society of one-million people where there is no aging or death, no illness, no wars, no killing, no hatred, no laws, no priests or religion . . . Everything is possible in Eternia. The city of eternal youth and beauty. Every wish of the Eternians, their  every fantasy or desire has the capacity to become reality. By espousing the rules of "ItAll" the Eternians have become immortal. They have the option to be at any age they wish, at any given time, between the ages of twenty and forty. The only two rights they do not have, the only two wishes they can't fulfill are to die and/or to have children.
However, twelve ladies are selected, randomly, every ten-years to give birth to twelve mortal children. They are to be educated by the best teachers, past or present, in the chosen field of education that, solely, is to be selected by their mother. When these young boys and young girls reach the tender age of ten, one of them, the "Chosen One", has to be exiled and left alone on a deserted land which is chosen in advance by the creator of Eternia, “ItAll”. The chosen one is to become the victim and the life giving essence for the existence of “ItAll,” while the eleven remaining children are to become the life giving force for the one million Eternians. The renewal of their youth and all of their desires and wishes becoming realities depends on this once every ten-year law that “ItAll” has imposed upon them.
One thousand years have past since the day when Antigone hidden in the dankest corner of her house made her first wish. Though, everyone has accepted “ItAll” as their savior, the grantor of their wishes, their immortality, and their eternal youth, the maternal instincts of Antigone as a mother to be, forewarned her that “ItAll” is not a savior, but only a self-serving beast, a devourer of mortal children for his own existence. Antigone's first wish is to save her unborn child from the hunger of the beast. She appears as revelation to a fisherman and she begs him to save her child from the beast, although she knows that everything in Eternia may perish, including her own self, by saving her child from the once every ten-year craving hunger of the beast.
Generation after generation, the fisherman’s family, true to his promise to Antigone, saving Antigone's child becomes the purpose of their lives. One thousand years from the day of Antigone’s first wish, an old man, named Setarcos, moves to an uninhabited, isolated island. His only contact with the world is a fisherman, named Stavros, who brings to him, twice a year, the necessities for his survival, nonperishables foods and goods. After ten years of a complete isolated life and under the strangest of circumstances Setarcos and Antigone’s little boy, named Chris, whom the Eternians have exiled on this deserted island, become friends and without them even knowing, one saves the life of the other.
The fisherman arrives on the island bringing the supplies for the subsistence of Setarcos. One look at the boy and instantly Stavros knows who is the child standing next to the old man.  For the next eight years he becomes the protector of the child from the beast, who had appeared on the island in the shape of a wolf and mist, just when the child set foot on the island. For eight-years the fisherman is training the old-man and the boy, he builds weapons, and he prepares everything for the final confrontation between them and the beast, and on the eighteenth birthday of the boy, the beast is dead.
The boy who has become a young man not only has the urge and the yearning of one million voices begging him to return to Eternia, but also he has a burning desire to apologize for misunderstanding the love and the devotion of his mother. His mother who loved him for a thousand years. As the fishing boat with all three of them abroad approaches Eternia, they can see a half ruined city and ghost-like figures of men and women, aged, desolate, lonely, and with only one last wish, one last desire to become true. The desire to die.
When the fishing boat leaves Eternia, it has on it eleven more passengers than when it arrived. They are the eleven eight-year old boys and girls who would have been the victims and the saviors of Eternia for the next ten-years. They are now safe on the fishing boat which by some unknown power of its own, circles the land of Eternia, and as it does so, the city of Eternia bursts on fire, becomes ashes, dust, left in the whims of he winds.
And, somewhere, in a civilized city, in one  of the best known and most visited archaeological museum, and in a giant room, stands all by itself a monolith of a material unknown to science, and at the top of it engraved with jewels and diamonds, a pure masterpiece of art, an enormous eye is hovering, observing every one of them as if it were waiting for something to happen, for something to wake it up, to give it life again.