Jorj Tory Watchman dies on a freeway overpass, the victim of a fiery explosion. He wakes to find himself reborn in the wreckage below, laying naked in an almost barren-not quite the same-city. His memory seems wiped clean. Worse, what inhabitants exist unfold a dangerous after-world of questions for which every answer bears a price, ultimately pushing him towards a fate from which there is no turning back.