After months battling acute meningitis, Amanda awakens from a long coma with intricate depictions of an alternate reality from beyond. It's the day of NASA'S manned expedition to Jupiter's moon Europa and along with her patients Amanda starts to piece together how she's a fundamental part in an ever-growing puzzle controlled by a major underground geo-political corporation called The Firm. Amanda unfolds how their true goal is to send an expedition to an Earth-like planet seventeen light years away and understands how to stop The Firm, first she must infiltrate it.