A soft-spoken teenage boy gets a job at the local drive-in theatre to rekindle his relationship with his childhood friend when suspicion surrounding what truly happened at the staff party starts getting in the way.
Dealing with an illness and troubled past, an isolated man applies for the Mars Survival Mission with hopes to colonize Mars after the Earth has become over populated. Everett Curtis never fit in on Earth, and so when the chance for him to apply to become one of the first settlers on Mars arises he jumps at the chance. Befriending a local journalist and an old friends sister, he learns that Earth may be just as new to him as Mars.
