After years of bouncing between foster homes, unwanted and unloved, eighteen-year-old Sofia Kaye is determined to shake the "loser" foster kid stigma that has shrouded her most of her life. And she believes she can do that by getting a graduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She's passed the first hurdle of being accepted, but there's still one more hurdle to clear-coming up with the twenty-five thousand dollars her scholarship is short. And being that she's on her own, that might as well be a million dollars. In a desperate attempt to fulfil her dreams, Sofia goes against her better judgement and accepts an invitation to compete on a new TV reality show, which promises a prize equal to what she needs to make her tuition for the first year. However, as Sofia and two fellow contestants, Zach and Liv, race to the finish line, it becomes clear the game is rigged and the billionaire tycoon behind the show only wants Liv. Before the three realize what's going on, Liv is whisked away to Egypt, and a mysterious man, who claims to be an alien from the planet, Pleiades, kidnaps Sofia and Zach and takes them to Egypt as well. As Sofia and Zach search for Liv and struggle to distinguish friend from foe, truth from fiction, and alien from human, they come to realize this is no longer a game. But will they discover the true danger they're in before it's too late?