Brett has escaped the clamour of life on Earth to fly cargo and personnel for the colonies on Mars. Passing over the vast mountains and canyons of the red planet his imagination is free and open. He hears what others do not. The General arrives from Earth to take overall command of the colonies and increase mining profitability for investors on the home planet. But he has a secret agenda to be funded by those higher profits. He will establish total control on Mars and rule as the head of a new order. As mining is intensified a shocking truth is revealed, but only to Brett is made known the full and deadly fate of the colonies unless he and Karin can stop the General. Death and disaster strike as the General pursues his insane mission.