A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the caution of youthful astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira significantly. At the same time, an exiled staff of outcasts mines for rare minerals on the lone asteroid.

When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira’s alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who might be able to conserve our world, understanding that the Opening hurtles inexorably toward sunlight.