At an exclusive magical nightclub The Great Franchesco thrusts Rick and Rita into an adaptation of their own past. In a gory, surrealistic setting with no exit they must confront the dead and the living in payment for past sins. Montessori spends his life acquiring money and building shopping malls. A protester harasses him as he enters his newest creation and he finds himself trapped in a world where his survival depends on his own repentance. Craig is in a deep depression after his wife Joanie's death.
Time grinds to a halt and then begins again like a videotape.
He hears voices telling him Joanie should not have died. The voices are directing him back toward his Joanie and all of life's answers. Caufa c plague threatens all the Proleans and Egrins. Delnon 35 must now face his ultimate t est on a remote planetary outpost. His final decision determines the life or death of the landing party and his own existence. .