Fred Cassidy leads an idyllic life.
As long as he remains a full time college student without a degree he is provided a very generous stipend from his uncle's estate.
But after thirteen years of happy undergrad existence everything is about to change.
Cassidy's home is broken into and ransacked.
When he enters he is assaulted by a former professor wanting to know where the alien artifact known as the star-stone is.
Cassidy manages to escape only to discover that he is also being pursued by hi.