In a distant future, a young woman travels to a planet that all are forbidden from visiting and finds an alien that looks and speaks exactly like her long-lost father. But will she be able to escape?

In the near future where NASA is defunded and only private corporations have the infrastructure for space travel, a former NASA astronaut gains favor with one such corporation to send a mission to Mars, but then crash lands in an accident that may have been intentional sabotage by the company who funded their trip.