It’s 2062 and Malcolm and his family live on Mars. On the night before his twelfth birthday, he asks his father to finally tell him the story as to how they had to leave Earth and build a life on Mars.

Both his mom and dad tell him a haunting tale about what had made them leave their former planet. Slowly, a totalitarian state came to power, suppressing the people. An assembly known as The Quartet had terrorized and decimated the Earth’s population. The climate was adrift. But only one ship made it to Mars. Where are the other ships? And could the population of Mars City expect to remain save after all those years?