Ellie Parish, a rookie journalist from the “Outworld” colonies, has arrived with her husband in hopes of finding a career-making story on the lost frontier of Earth. What has happened to the descendants of those who were left behind?

The couple hit a deadly quarantine field, however, and their spacecraft is destroyed. Her transportation gone and her husband killed in the crash, the grief-stricken Ellie is left to cross the wasteland alone in search of civilization.