The year is 2057 and the sun is dying, no longer providing the much needed heat for the earth. Because of this the earth is beginning to enter a new ice age that will lead to the deaths of most of the earth's inhabitants. However, humanity has a plan, one last hope in the form of the spaceship Icarus II and it's 8-man crew, the second shipped launched for this same mission. Their mission is to detonate a thermonuclear device that will re-start the sun, providing warmth for the earth. The crew must work hard and risk everything knowing that they are the last chance for survival of the human race.