Every year teens are brought together to take test that will determine the path for the rest of their life. You can be Dauntless, Amity, Canor, Abnegation, Eudrite, or sometimes factioinless if you fail to meet any of these groups. Beatrice a Abnegation girl looking for her purpose in life is different, she has been catigorized as Divergent which forces her to fight to fit in, in order for her to stay alive.