The Earth is not dead. It just can't support all its inhabitants anymore. Gavin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He starts making a film about diverting water from the Great Lakes and how it has not increased food production. The public is being told that the media mogul Delgado is financing the first colonization of Mars. He asks Gavin to journey to New Earth using alien technology and where humans have been taken there for centuries. Most of the people on New Earth think that God brought them there. He will find the truth is much more remarkable and disturbing. Will Gavin return to Earth and help humanity avoid extinction or stay with the woman he loves?