"Magdad City is a slum, the biggest on Terra Secondus, and Bastian is one of its offsprings. Inside this gigantic sea of concrete, life has taken its own wild path, like a tumor dying on itself as the boy grows old. Drugs, gangs war and misery are his usual... But he doesn't really care. All he wants? To have fun... 

And to forget that scum never leaves the slum..."

"The Butterflies Blossom" is an fictional autobiography of Bastian Summers, reporting his life as an outcast inside a slum ruled by drugs quartel, prostitution, and completly ignored by the gouvernment. He knows that he is different but can't really figure out why. And on his own, he tries to find his way to survive and to solve the meaning of the Butterflies Blossom. Until his road came across a gun man named Oracio.