Harry Cannel, thirty-four, bound to a desk job and staring into the abyss of a failed marriage, suddenly finds his life changed after allegedly rescuing passengers from a doomed flight.

However, he didn't do it alone. He had help from beyond—as in extra-terrestrial help—but the problem is, no one believes him. He becomes the butt of jokes, loses his job and his marriage, and finds himself an outcast.

Still, there is a mystery to be solved. Harry is determined to find out just who his helpers were. John, a stalwart strongman, and Linda, a dazzling redhead with whom Harry falls hopelessly in love with, are his quarry.

Along the way, Harry meets up with comic book aficionados, rabid fans, a man named Twitt, and a group of otherworldly beings that want him dead. He also discovers something inside himself that he'd suppressed for a long time—the wonder that dwells within all of us, the wonder of what's really out there.