The story starts with a space agency on earth looking for and testing twins. It seems that some are gifted in a way that allows them to communicate with each other even if they aren't speaking. The main character and his brother are such gifted twins and they are placed into a space program where one will stay on earth and the other will go into space.
As the story progresses, the brother who stays on earth ages faster then the one who went into space and creepily enough, when the space brother returns he ends up getting married to his great-great-great niece.