A cosmic horror story about the Gardners, a family who relocates to a lonely farmstead in rural New England to escape the rush and bustle of the twenty-first century. When a meteorite lands in their front yard, they are still adjusting to their new life. The enigmatic aerolite appears to dissolve into the ground, infecting both the terrain and the properties of space-time with a peculiar, otherworldly color. To their dismay, the Gardners realize that this extraterrestrial power is gradually changing every life form it comes into contact with...including them.