For generations, the firstborn children of the rulers of the planets Rutan and Senali have been exchanged at the age of seven to promote peace and understanding between the societies.  Now it has led them to the brink of war.

Leed, the heir to the Rutan throne, does not want to return to his home planet.  His father will stop at nothing to get him back.  Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi must prevent this rift from turning to bloodshed.

It is their hardest challenge yet.