Jonas comes to discover the horrifying truth of his seemingly ideal community when he is assigned to learn from the keeper of the memories from before their heavily-controlled world was constructed. When the stakes turn personal, Jonas is forced to try to break out of his world to save everyone.
Jonas, a young man, is living in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past.