A husband and wife ex-marine team farming on a remote planet, have to deal with dark memories as they try to rescue their kidnapped children, following the kidnapper across a nightmare-inducing desert storm.

In addition to both husband and wife being revisited by nightmarish combat decisions from their past, the kidnapper, and the two kidnapped children also face horrors from their dreams, and this reader got a little disorientated what with the husband and wife watching their younger selves, and keeping track of who was watching and who was the memory!