It is the Earth year 2882; Professor Kay Vogel has arrived at the north pole of Mars on a very important assignment. Her mission, geotechnical drilling deep into Mars, a project that is key to the success of the ongoing Mars Terra-forming operation, called Trinity. However, something is very wrong at the remote polar drilling base, CIRAM-One. Unexplained things are happening and people are starting to die. Now, Kay Vogel finds herself trapped in the middle of a Martian polar winter, battling bone-shattering cold and unimaginable darkness. Her only hope of escape lies in solving a baffling mystery, and preventing something or someone from destroying Humanity's only chance at survival on the Red Planet. Who will live and who will die! In the cold and the dark!