No matter how far you run, you can never really escape your problems. Running away on a spaceship was supposed to get Derek Mertens away from the boyfriend who broke his heart, but in the depths of space they manage to find each other again. While Derek tries to make sense of this development and put right what once went wrong, we also follow the story of his boyfriend, Bradley Carter, as he nearly died in an alien revolution. Who are these rebels, and why do they care so much about cracking a military code from the Krin war?