A TV cameraman's disintegrating life doesn't improve much when he's [apparently] killed in post-war Iraq. What followed may or may not have been the afterlife; but with insanity the only alternative, CJ's vivid recollections feel more comfortably aligned to near-death delirium. That is until he uncovers his possession of new, highly accomplished and curious skills together with dangerous amounts of factual knowledge surrounding mankind's unsolved ponderings.

Added to this, he returns from the desert an unlikely national hero and to a frighteningly altered personal life: marital "developments"; a missing best friend; and a previously melancholic father dating again. CJ battles his desert demons in the unnerving new environment before several events reveal the gruesome truth carrying human ramifications on a global scale...