A few days hinder if someone would have told him he was going to be the savior of millions of people Cayce Davis would have scoffed and laughed in their faces. Yet now as he sat on his father's deathbed, he realized no one else could do what needed to be done. If the human race were to survive, he would not only have to succeed in out battling his incarnate father, but win over the hearts and minds of an alien species known as the Dothorians. He would have to teach them, life, begotten by death, is life not at all, but a surrogate worth not living. And in doing so, he, the boy and student, would grow to become the man and teacher.