Jonas , a 12 year old boy Lives in the community isolated from all except a few similar towns, where everyone from small infant to the chief elder has assigned role. The chief elder then explains that Jonas has not been given a normal assignment, but instead has been selected as the next receiver of memory, to be trained by the current one, who sits among the elders staring at Jonas and he shares with the boy unusual pale eyes, the position of receiver has high status and responsibility and Jonas quickly finds himself distant from his classmates including his close friend Asher and Fiona . Over a course of time he starts to see strange things and see things that no one has ever experienced.