Avatar is an ancient world, its true origin predating computers by thousands of years and its secret is the reason that Zak, a young boy recently orphaned, is pursued from his home on the planet Terrah to the summit of Khufu's Great Pyramid in Egypt and then to Australia. Zak endures tragedy, his preconceptions are shattered and he must learn to assume nothing as he uncovers a system of suffering and manipulation that he can barely imagine.