?We got your back, and Mars's too. She is alive, folks, and don't forget that. Our Earth would be alive today if we hadn't forgotten to respect her life,? Lew Bead told the people of New Life Public. The Bead family opened their rural ranch to their family and neighbors when their ordinary world suddenly stopped functioning. A fortunate discovery leads them to spaceships prepared to take mass populations to Mars. Harrowing experiences and old and new forged relationships send them where a new world evolves.