A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.

Brother and sister Megan and Bradley are forced to leave their friends and move to the middle of nowhere to join their mother, step father and little sister at an adventure centre on the banks of Lake Windermere. Bradley struggles to come to terms with the new regime as Megan meets Harry, a medieval spirit guide, who flings the kids into a magical world of endless dimensional possibilities.

As a morning show goes into the 5 minute countdown before their live recording, the producers, political guests, cast and crew try and make the most of a freshly uncovered scandal.