Of course, Alice would like to meet her alien friend Bernard again. But it would have been better if this meeting happened under different circumstances. Her friend is in prison, and she faces arrest for illegal entry onto a planet. Who lured Alice to the crime scene? What does artificial intelligence have to do with it? What is hidden in the victim’s stash, and why do the locals fear technology so much? To save her friend and not end up behind bars herself, Alice will have to find answers to these questions and expose the killer.