After eight months of hyper-sleep when Christopher 'Chris' McNiel (Jason London) and Theta Kaplan (Missy Crider) of a Mars cargo transport ship the Solar System Shipping Vessel No.17 (Triple S-17) awaken they find out something has gone terribly wrong. They've woken up from hyper-sleep almost ten months past their scheduled time find the ship's internals badly damaged off course and almost no fuel. What's more it's discovered the first shift killed each other. As the plot unfolds something truly evil is discovered on board - an alien biological life form which can psychologically manipulate humans.