In the cold darkness of a winter's night a Sleeper Train winds its way from Cornwall to London. It's Christmas 1954. A group of Soldiers are returning from a training exercise when the train suddenly stops in the middle of nowhere - a mutilated Bull carcass blocking the line. With their assistance the Bull has been moved out of the way and the train allowed to continue . . . but it continues without its guard - the first victim of something lurking in the shadows . . . and he wont be the last.

1959: Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space, suffering Hypoxia, with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Tyuratam deep in Soviet Russia. Can he get home? Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?