Mark Vararrif, a young Trothian seventeen earth-years old, travels 200 light years to the planet Earth with his fellow Trothians hoping to find a new planet after theirs was destroyed. He was completing his preparations to integrate into English life when another Trothian named Zarkoff kidnaps him to prevent Mark from revealing him as the murderer he was Zarkoff's shuttle crashes and Mark arrives on the shores of England with a fair knowledge of the English language but with a poor understanding of the people's customs and culture causing him to experience some funny, embarrassing and sometimes dangerous situations with his encounters with the people from Earth. His lack of understanding of the female species both from Earth and from Trothal provides endless problems for him.