In the far future, the CEO of a space company, Hugh Dancy, wants to make it easier for humans to accomplish interstellar space travel. He convinces his friend Declan McGuinness to do a favor for a man whose genes he wants to copy--a man with the ability to hibernate.
Declan agrees to find the man's missing partner. Eventually, he has to go to Mars with a young FBI agent to help solve a murder. Declan's wife, Honey, tags along, convinced it is the vacation of a lifetime. When the travelers arrive in Mars's orbit, they find the planet occupied by a rogue group of super robots.
The spaceship passengers become involved in a very personal and unexpected intrusion. Hugh Dancy finds a path not only to shortening space travel time but also to enlisting future space crews for colonization, again with Declan's help.