Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one white, one black -- and their sons, who are buddies, provides the microcosm of this major social issue that has been argued for several decades.

A team of men and women investigate the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.

Adaption of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning novel