America became home to the huddled masses seeking opportunity in a new land. In our future homeless teenager Gary Grime is willing to do whatever it takes at have a chance at a better life, even if it means going to Mars. Hundreds of thousands, knowing there's a price for have a chance to survive hibernation, and even then there is no guarantee they will surviving the steerage class passage. Worse, reaching Mars is only the first challenge, because the odds of survival grow worse, not better, if they make it to the subterranean colony on the inhospitable planet - a world that could take decades, if not centuries to make habitable. And Mars will do everything it can to kill him and all those he will come to love and depend on… if his fellow colonists don't manage kill each other first. Welcome to D.H. Aire's somewhat satiric tale of the mass immigration experience to Mars.