Be prepared to weave your way through stories of men driven by misunderstanding and confusion, fanatics confronted by a stark reality of their own making, prisoners living in what appears to be a concentration camp (but isn't), young children infected by weird viruses, gamblers letting it all ride on one chance in a lifetime, a doctor who is described as a walking time bomb, an atheist who has a life-altering brush with death, and other bizarre people and circumstances.