Douglas Romayne

Jan Wiener is a young Czech Jew struggling to survive at the outset of Nazi occupation during World War II.

A middle-aged science fiction nerd role-plays as his favorite space hero out in the desert when he hits his head and becomes convinced he is a space hero for real. When he starts to suspect his role-playing buddy of being an enemy alien, what started as a ridiculous fantasy game becomes a matter of life and death.