9-year-old Matty lives in a place called The Village. In The Village, everybody has a special gift. When they are old enough, they recieve a special name. Matty, who loves running through the forest and delivering messages to and fro, wants his name to be Messenger. A few days before the day he will get his name, he delivers a message to the other side of the forest to prove he is worthy of the name Messenger. But he doesn’t realize what his real gift is…