The transition through the experimental teleporter on Al'Antis was successful. James and his team have found the original teleporter of the elders. But what awaits them on the other side is not what they expected. They find the answers they so ardently desire, but none of them makes their future any easier. On the contrary, they suddenly find themselves facing a final, great danger to their home planet that seemed unreachable: Earth.

But the place where James, Mila, Mette, Adrian, Meeks, and Justus find themselves turns everything they have believed upside down—including time itself. Can they make it back to Earth? Or will they remain trapped among the stars? And if they succeed, will their home still exist?