Fleeing from the death of his girlfriend back on Earth, former Philosophy-major Adrian
Ryan manages to find a measure of contentment by signing up for a job crafting dreams for
convicts being transported to a far off planet to work in the mines. Fate seems to smile upon him
further when he meets a beautiful girl named Tanis while spending a month long furlough upon
Siluna, a planet a portion of the way to their destination, and falls in love again, re-awakening in
him - for the first time in years - the fires of passion; but his whole world is thrown into confusion
one day when he receives a message from one of his ship-mates, summoning him to a candid
conversation in the ship's lounge, where he learns not only that he's been watched for years, but
also of a revolutionary plan to take-over the ship - and the part that he might play in it. And so,
coaxed by Tanis not only into using the very technology whereby he creates dreams for the
convicts in suspended animation, but also into using it to further the revolutionary plan, Adrian
throws away everything he knows and commits himself to the Cause..
