Ezra's planet, according to the spook, was doomed. The spook gave him the chance to save it; or at least its population. Give up his selfish ways. Would he take the task offered? Walk north in fear of belligerence with a mentally-challenged brother he wanted away from and find the element that might save all?

Michelle Paris, working alongside an American, Mark Chambers – both headhunted by each of their governments – start out on an obsequious shared assignment they both didn't need. But things soon turn unearthly. A confused, tangled journey into imaginative concept. Or is it imagination? All four must decide the difference between what they see as fantasy and what they see as realism, before it's too late; before humanity has nowhere to go.