Long after humanity had discovered the secret to faster-than-light travel and had spread out into the universe the last great war was fought over how to divide and rule the galaxy. During the war, breakthroughs in the speed of communication and travel made future wars all but ridiculous to fight. Generations of humans lived and died never knowing of life with the possibility of experiencing any war.

A young college Sophomore has a bad breakup with her boyfriend of six years and in a fit of anger and grief drives her car through a portal only to discover a shocking secret from the great war over five thousand years earlier.