In the deep silence of outer space, a complex docking manoeuvre at the ISS has gone dangerously wrong. Communications have been cut off, there is no word from US captain Anthony Kurz and his crew. Durkhov, head of operations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, is horrified: the crew seems destined to perish. Meanwhile, French astronaut Anna Zarathi wakes up after a failed suicide attempt, convinced she heard Kurz calling her for help. She is told of the ISS incident and summoned to Baikonur. Six months before, she had been part of the INFINITI mission, but she was diagnosed with a form of paranoia just before lift-off and Kurz, who had become her lover, took her place.
