HIDE OR FIGHT? Matthias an illegal third child is caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy?