Bill Gram is the leader of the Outcasts, a band of six Moon residents that handle 'clandestine' jobs on Earth. With Mars and Earth on the brink of war due to the Outcasts' failure to stop the plans of Hours, the alien leader of Earth, Gram and his team somberly return home. But on the flight to the Moon, they are brutally violated by an attack of unknown physical and psychological origin. Their minds and bodies corrupted, they must fight the invader to save their lives, and possibly the lives of everyone on the Moon. If Gram is to survive and become a god, he must first succeed as a captain.