Elizabeth is an eighteen-year-old girl who has been sent off to a girl's college away from her home in London. Upon arriving at school, she is bombarded with one shocking experience after another by the actions of the school staff and even the female students themselves. It appeared to her that the gentility of Victorian England had not made it to this rural institution. Fed up with the unabashed depravity she has experienced on her first day, she runs outside into an early winter snowstorm hoping to calm down and gather her wits about her. While she is walking in the wintry weather, she spies a flashing light streaking across the dark sky. At first, thinking it's a falling star, Elizabeth makes a wish. But when the flaming star flies directly over her head and crashes over a small hill Elizabeth rushes to investigate. She comes upon a crater and spies the flashing lights of a cigar-shaped metal object and realizes it isn't a meteor or a star at all. Possibly a spacecraft. Examining the perimeter of the crater Elizabeth slips on the ice and snow and falls into the crater and rolls down into the crater. As she falls her head hits a large rock, the obvious concussion blurs her perception and before she loses consciousness she thinks she sees an alien coming out of the metal craft, and it's heading for her. With visions of a horrible death, Elizabeth finally loses consciousness.