They have adopted the video of Eo's song and execution as a rallying vehicle for their cause. However, Darrow awakes to find that he has been drugged and delivered into the hands of the Sons of Ares, a terrorist group of Reds who fight against the oppression of the "low Colors". Darrow cuts down and buries his wife's body, a crime for which he is also hanged. She is subsequently hanged on the orders of Mars' ArchGovernor Nero au Augustus. While she is publicly whipped for her crime, Eo sings a forbidden folk tune as a protest against their virtual enslavement. He and his wife Eo are captured after entering a forbidden area and are arrested. Sixteen-year-old Darrow is a Red, a class of workers who toil beneath the surface of Mars mining helium-3 to terraform the planet and make it habitable.
The powerful ruling class of humans has installed a rigid, color-based social hierarchy where the physically superior Golds at the top rule with an iron fist.
It has been seven hundred years since mankind colonized other planets.
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