An alien contacts three teenagers. The alien had crashed into a lough in Donegal Ireland, and its safety craft, that it has lain in for over a thousand years, is quickly surfacing. Each of the contacted teenagers is intelligent. The boys are lonely. Paul is fat. Conor's father is dead. Sarah is a computer genius. The Alien unites them by asking them to help it get to the top of Errigal, the highest mountain in Donegal. There, its parents are to come from a galaxy billions of miles away to take it home. But all the while they are stalked by Scoop Smith and other government agencies. The children's midnight mission is the basis of this exciting tale that should be enjoyed by children of all ages.