Fleeing from the death of his girlfriend back on Earth, former Philosophy-major Adrian

Ryan manages to find a measure of contentment by signing up for a job crafting dreams for

convicts being transported to a far off planet to work in the mines. Fate seems to smile upon him

further when he meets a beautiful girl named Tanis while spending a month long furlough upon

Siluna, a planet a portion of the way to their destination, and falls in love again, re-awakening in

him - for the first time in years - the fires of passion; but his whole world is thrown into confusion

one day when he receives a message from one of his ship-mates, summoning him to a candid

conversation in the ship's lounge, where he learns not only that he's been watched for years, but

also of a revolutionary plan to take-over the ship - and the part that he might play in it. And so,

coaxed by Tanis not only into using the very technology whereby he creates dreams for the

convicts in suspended animation, but also into using it to further the revolutionary plan, Adrian

throws away everything he knows and commits himself to the Cause..