The Time Corps is an agency of the Celestial Bureaucracy charged with maintaining some semblance of stability for the entirety of history. To do so, several substations are set up in potential crisis areas where Time Corps agents, snatched from the moments of their death, are given a chance to improve their postmortem spiritual disposition, according to the rules of their own spiritual path.

In the Venice Beach substation of 2002, Mayan athlete Smoke Jaguar, Russian noblewoman Paulina Popova and Prohibition-era lothario Garibaldi DiLovorno work under the supervision of former Roman centurion and current station chief Gaius Equitus Brutus and former DMV clerk turned Time Corps supervisor Prunella Jones.

What none of them know is that sinister forces have strong motivations to make everything the Time Corps does turn to dust ...