Andy's father is drafted and the truancy police are after him. Andy must find a way off this world and back to his mother on a different planet. He lucks into a job on a space freighter, only to discover there was a reason there was a sudden jog opening. When the ships gets attacked by pirates Andy gets trapped in an Escape Pod. The escape pod gets ejected from the freighter and Andy finds himself in more trouble. In the distance he sees a space station, but as Andy's father might have said, he went from the frying pan into the fire.