Zianno Zenzen discovers that he one of the Meq, an immortal race whose origins have been long forgotten and who live anonymously among ordinary humans, and that, at the age of twelve, he will no longer age until he encounters the one Meq who is destined to be his soulmate, and embarks on a decades-long search for his legacy and to stop an evil Meq called the Fleur-de-Mal.