 The novel starts out with an African girl named Simone, who tastes a piece of chocolate for the Midnight Sun (as the book centers around the sense of taste, like the first novel, which centers around scent, and the second, which centers around the sense of sound).It is noted that she is a Supertaster, and is able to distinguish between almost any food, no matter how similar they are.Immediately after tasting the chocolate, she blacks out.