Society is crumbling. Greed and corruption at the top, poverty and hardship at the bottom. Families struggling as prices rise and currency devalues. The young faced with a future without hope turning to violence. The authorities clamping down ever harder as resentment rises. A powder keg needing one spark. A young journalist and his wife meet an Alien who, in a television interview, tells them that if they don't start thinking for themselves, instead of leaving it to others, their world is on the path to extinction. The fuse is lit. The couple start a campaign but they are too late. Pollution and biological weapons threaten to wipe out all life. A small spaniel and a young girl offer a ray of hope and the couple come to realise that not only is their world at risk but the fate of the entire Cosmos.