"Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We...

Gladius is a 15-year-old boy who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when he is sent on his Bartlett Trial - a coming of age challenge...

A plane crash-lands in the desert. Stranded and needing to fix it to get home, the aviator has one week's worth of water supplies. To his utter surprise, in the first morning, he's woken up by a visitor. A little boy in the middle of the desert. But the boy doesn't seem to be lost. He asks the most peculiar questions and claims to be from another planet.