Fit and resourceful, Brett Falco and Susan Connelly may just be the most eligible couple to try to immigrate into the Commons-a shelter in the febrile 2200's-if only this weren't against the Constitution of the newly founded, preservationist country. Seeking a challenge, brilliant lawyer Clarens Mann takes on their impossible case, with life-turning repercussions and hope for a cure for his secret ailment. Parties get vested in from both sides of the wind-lashed border as raw nature calls for who may stay and who should go.