Jeff Winston has always expected happiness to arrive tomorrow but now, at 43, he is beginning to wonder if his low-paid, unrewarding job is all he can expect and the long silences and lack of children his lot domestically Then he dies and the 'replay' of his life begins but not as it has been lived but a bizarre cycle of dying and coming back to the taking off point in college in 1963, with half a dozen chances to live it in a different way