The story centres around a group of eight American teenagers who are sent to a karate school in China with no explanation from their families. They soon discover that they are being trained to fight a war, one that originated with their parents and one that they have no choice but to continue.Meanwhile, someone is kidnapping and brainwashing selected New York students from the school to break the preparation for the war. Others disappear and do not return.The eight teenagers train hard, knowing they face a long road ahead, one on which the future of their families depends.