Steelheart is about a boy named David, who has been forced to live in the steel caverns below what is known as Newcago. He was raised by his father, who had been his sole caretaker and rolemodel for his childhood. That was before Camamity. Calamity, which had been reduced to a glowing red sphere in the sky, was still a mystery. It had appeared out of nowhere, and at the same time, ordinary people became more than ordinary. They had been granted extroadinary powers, but as they became more ahead of the rest of humanity, they gradually lost their humanity altogether. The most powerful epics, such as Steelheart, had became ruthless dictators and mass murderers. Steelheart had killed David's father. His father was doing no harm, when he shot an epic that had been killing everybody in the bank he was in. Unfortunately, the bullet had grazed the supposedly invincible Steelheart, wounding him when no weapon could ever do him harm. Steelheart then killed everybody in the bank out of rage, except for one survivor: David. Ever since that tragic day, David had been planning his revenge on Steelheart, and will stop at nothing to have it. David had seen Steelheart bleed, and was determined to see it again.