This is the dramatic story of settlement of Moon of Mars by the community seeking satisfaction, independence and survival in a complex world.
The novel gives into a contrast the two environments, Earth and Moon of Mars, operating on different cultural values. The narration is located in the abstract future and the story tells how people on Moon handle the situation with immigrants from Earth. It deals with the willingness to help a fellowman that is clashing with the actual failure to provide the needed aid.
The main characters are Sandra, a young sensitive woman with strong humanitarian feeling and her rationally-minded friend Richard, protagonist of suppression of individual interest at the benefit of community.