An investigation into the sudden disappearance of three colonized worlds leads an investigator to a man on another world who claims to have been behind it. What the investigator finds would lead to a re-examination of the possibility that a 'higher power' caused it, but for the wrong reasons.

Probably clouding the investigator's emotions is her mother, who is one of those who also disappeared. But she whuld discover in the end that despite the brief lives of people, she would be remembered.