When the best young men and women of the USA—ranging from the most popular cyber-sportsmen and bloggers to mathematical geniuses—during a fairly routine flight to the Moon suddenly encounter an alien ship disguised as an asteroid, it turns out in the end that no one can help them except themselves. Neither American special services, nor a space agency, nor—much less—their social status or their parents’ status on the Earth they left behind. In many ways, the passengers end up on their own. And they have to find answers too: about the motives of the aliens and how to escape while the ship keeps moving farther from the Moon into the darkness of the unknown.