Juan Reyes thought he was normal, though he dreamed of being something more. He sought out the spotlight, on stage and screen, and thought he had found where he truly belonged. Until one day, dragged along on a misguided adventure in the woods by a group of friends and acquaintances with too much time on their hands, a strange and violent encounter turns his life upside down. Juan learns that he once had another name, another race, and a whole other reality that he can hardly accept a reality in which alien civilizations exist, and men can shake off the bonds of gravity and fly free. But there is a cost, and it is paid in blood. Offered the chance to rejoin his people, accepting their strange and sometimes brutal ways at the expense of his conscience and the woman he loves, Juan has to make a choice. Does he side with them against the only people he has ever known people who are determined to eliminate the alien threat or side with humanity, and turn his back on who he really is? It's an impossible choice, and he's running out of time....