Jabre’el is an interstellar social engineer and missionary. His mission is to subvert religious development amongst the humanoid sentients of a small, distant planet, to save them from themselves. On the planet, two young girls become lost as they undertake their own mission to help their family. Exhausted and vulnerable, they meet a stranger in the desert… Sentinel is Jabre’el’s ship, an artificial intelligence and also his guardian. When the mission falters, it becomes clear that Sentinel will go to any lengths to make sure that Jabre’el is part of the solution and not the problem. Past and future merge as the characters, and their stories, intertwine, leading to an alternative telling of a familiar tale with an unexpected ending.