Ballad about snakes and singing birds. Collins S.

He is fed by ambition.

He is whipped up by the spirit of rivalry.

But the price of power is too high...

The morning of the harvest comes when the tenth annual hungry starts games. In the Capitol, eighteen -year -old Coriolan Snow is preparing to use his only opportunity to gain fame and honor. His once-powerful family is going through difficult times, and their last hope is that Coriolan is more cunning, smarter and more charming rivals and will become a mentor of the victorious tribut.

He is given a humiliating task-to teach a tribute girl from the poorest distribution-12. Now their destinies are inextricably woven - and every decision made by Coriolan will lead either to luck or defeat. Either to the triumph, or to the disaster.

When a deadly battle begins in the arena, Snow realizes that she experiences unacceptably warm feelings for the doomed girl. Soon he will have to decide what is more important: the need to follow the rules or the desire to survive at all costs?