Matthew Loader works as a reporter for the Daily Telegraph covering the incursions of Russia into UK air and sea territorial space. This is actually a cover for his role as a MI5 agent.

Susan Newby is a neuroscientist who is convinced that the human brain has a second, deeper incarnation. She supports her husband, George, in his twenty-year astronomy quest for extra-terrestrial life, during which he believes he is in touch with aliens.

Susan is possessed and left in a coma by supernatural energy, but she does recover. Loader becomes involved with George and Susan when he covers their story for his newspaper. George is poisoned, and killed, by Russian agents as they try to extract information about his project.

Loader realises his love for Susan but becomes paralysed during a Russian inspired terrorist attack. Susans love for Loader will surmount his disability, - or will it?

The psyche of these two people, brought together by a bond of love, culminates in an alien event as the power of their minds must deal with horrors of a terrorist incident