Darren is a gifted young man who's research may have saved his colony by providing plant food for the struggling Earth crops. now another colony has experienced a catastrophic change in its ecology and Darren and his family are tasked to help save the young colony that had been planted there. The problems are difficult and they are running out of time. Darren and Wally, an aged botanist who knows about Darren's work, have only the time it takes to get to the target planet to come up with a solution. Can they find the answers before all life on the colony starves?