In 2044, with America bursting at the seams due to over-population, the Administration decrees that all people who hold one of 2014’s most popular baby names—Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden, Noah, Sophia, Isabella, Emma, Olivia and Ava—must be annihilated, causing a black man named Noah to lead a group of privileged white people with these unlucky names on a dangerous journey to the Mexican border, where their freedom awaits.