Have you sometimes felt, since an early age, that you were an alien,somehow placed on Earth and observing the antics of humans as if theywere a different species? Why do they believe such stupid things? Why do they do such dumb things? Any why do they keep doing them over and over again seemingly incapable of learning from the bad outcomes of all the previous attempts?

That is how Cal Adler felt since childhood and, like most people with such feelings, kept them quiet and bottled up while trying to get ahead in a game whose rules often seemed absurd. In his senior year in highschool, he encounters a substitute guidance counselor who tells him,without any preliminary conversation, precisely how he feels. He'sassured he is not alone, and that over time he will meet others. He isgiven an enigmatic contact in case of emergency. He is advised, as anyalien in a strange land, to blend in while observing and developing hisown talents.

Then he meets a Mystery Woman...and the real adventure begins.