The life of sixteen-year-old underachiever, Sethivas "Seth" Rutherford Blakesley, is turned upside down when he finds himself at the mercy of bullies that leave him strapped to a tree in the middle of a lightning storm. After surviving the terrible incident he finds himself given Electrokinetic abilities that he is informed were passed on to him by his late father who also possessed them, despite the positive changes to his young life, he is also being hunted by government officials known as The Civil Terror Detection Bureau, who are hell-bent on using him to their advantage as they tried to do his father, out of his element and on the run from the officials, Seth must contend with who is versus who he intended to be.