During its lonely, 120-year journey to the extrasolar planet Homestead II, the state-of-the-art spaceship Avalon encounters an unusual malfunction. As a result, the calamitous anomaly wakes an unfortunate mechanic ninety years before reaching the final destination. Now, the future of 5,000 cryogenically frozen passengers is hanging by a thread. Before long, insufferable isolation, dreadful loneliness, and profound despair set in, giving voice to uncomfortable thoughts. And the question remains. Will the intergalactic traveller and the doomed companions ever set foot on the promised land?