Far from the first world´s legislation, Japanese geneticist Seto Mishima founds the Porvenir Institute for gifted yongsters in the 80´s. A quarter of a century later, Ignacio Maiakosky, a journalist investigating posible experimentation being performed on humans in the Institute, falls in love with Elena, an ex “Porvenir Girl”, who disappears without trace. In his search for Elena, Maiakosky becomes involved in a secret war between anarchist groups, pharmaceutical companies and the “36 Hidden Saints”, 36 men and women, all of whom have been genetically manipulated in Porvenir to become the next step in human evolution.