Divergent

Imagine a city where everyone has to pick a group to live in based on what they're best at: brave fighters, super smart people, kind helpers, honest talkers, or happy peacemakers. A girl named Tris grows up in the boring helper group but finds out she's special because she fits in more than one group, called a Divergent. She picks the brave fighters, learns to jump from trains, fight bad guys, and face her fears in scary pretend dreams, while stopping the smart group from taking over everything with mind tricks.

In a dystopian future, Chicago is segregated into five factions—Abnegation (selfless), Erudite (knowledge-seeking), Dauntless (fearless), Amity (peaceful), and Candor (truthful)—designed to prevent societal collapse after a past war. Beatrice 'Tris' Prior, raised in the selfless Abnegation, undergoes the mandatory aptitude test that reveals her as 'Divergent,' possessing qualities of multiple factions, a trait both rare and dangerous. Choosing Dauntless for its thrill and freedom, Tris enters rigorous initiation training involving combat, fear simulations, and capture-the-flag games, forging alliances and facing rivalries amid whispers of faction tensions. As Tris navigates her budding romance with enigmatic instructor Four (Tobias Eaton) and uncovers Erudite's plot to overthrow Abnegation using mind-controlling serums, her Divergence becomes a key to resisting manipulation. Betrayals culminate in violent uprisings, forcing Tris to confront personal losses and moral dilemmas, ultimately challenging the faction system's validity and embracing her unique identity in a fight for autonomy and truth.