In Earth’s distant future, Tyndel is both teacher and mentor, a staunch devotee to his conservative and rigidly structured spiritual culture. A rogue infection of nanotechnology transforms him into a ‘demon’, something a lot more than human being, and he is pressured into exile, fleeing towards the more technologically advanced space-faring civilization that lies to the north, one that his own righteous people consider bad. Although shaken by his transformation, he has the rare talent required to become a space pilot. What no one, least of most Tyndel, expects, can be his deep-space encounter having a vastly excellent being-perhaps with God.