Twelve elite individuals embark on a decade-long Phaeton mission to explore a distant planetary system, passing the time in advanced virtual reality modules that let them assume new identities. However, as the ship nears a crucial stage, a fatal flaw is discovered in the virtual system, prompting the crew to suspect that one of them might be a murderer.

Virtuality
The team's VR equipment malfunctions, threatening their very survival as their mortality rate climbs.