The commissioner accidentally let his last cleaning crew starve to death. So now, Kanti and forty-nine of his teammates will have to spend the rest of their lives living in a one-room barracks, with only a single airlock protecting them from the planet's poisonous atmosphere. Surrounded by towering monsters, on a world where the very air is lethal, mysterious burrowing strangers are pushing the crew into a panic. Will Kanti be able to keep them from tearing each other apart? Or are they doomed to suffer a fate similar to the commissioner's previous cleaning crew?