 He wakes up in a room almost identical to his own at The Institute, a facility located deep in the woods of Maine.At The Institute are a number of other kidnapped children, each with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who live in rooms of their own.Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and (later) ten-year-old Avery Dixon and Helen Simms are all in the area known as Front Half while others have "graduated" to the Back Half of The Institute.