Selaynia - an Alliance operative was branded a traitor during the war with the Confederation. Now that the war is over, she wants to return home - to escape from the exile that led her first to the Alliance and then to the Confederation.

She finds herself on a small mining station - headquarters of the growing rebellion - and also finds her former lover who offers her an apparent way home.

However, there is truth in the old saying - "You can never go home again."