A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.

In the year 2524, a disgraced retired general is called back into combat to help prevent an interstellar war against a hostile alien fleet.