Dallas reporter Mark Hollenfield gets more than he bargains for when he picks up a pretty hitchhiker on I-20 west of Fort Worth. Hollenfield soon finds himself in a mad scramble to help a group of stranded extraterrestrials escape back to their native planet, with agents from U.S. Homeland Security and both Russia and China hot on their trail. During this escapade, he learns that the aliens have come to study Earth because of its unique relationship to life elsewhere in the universe. And he becomes intimately involved with one of the students, who takes him on a romantic ride into cosmic consciousness.