A young American running from a painful past meets an Irishman heading to London.

Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain’s first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Roscosmos deep in Soviet Russia. Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?

The story of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London in the 1960s.