Fleeing from a troubled past that left him feeling tarnished and used, Sean finds work as a medic aboard the deep sea mining ship Ariel, on a distant planet. Under the leader ship of the infuriating, yet charismatic, Captain Joel Riley, Sean settles into his simple, but dangerous, new life. It’s a life he soon comes to love; albeit one in which he conceals his sexuality and avoids intimacy. But Sean’s new world is turned on its head when an old face threatens to expose him for the man he used to be. With Joel’s help, will Sean learn to come to terms with his past and become a man he can be proud of?