Glad to get away from the State Capitol, Senator Jason Glimson heads for home in his Town Car. His trip is cut short as a truck full of fish T-bones him and sends him to the intensive care unit. Drifting in and out of consciousness in periods of drug induced sleep, he slowly recovers as his daughter Megan sits anxiously by his side. His dreams are vivid, and in them he visits new places that have embraced changes in social norms, each in different ways that make the towns at once familiar, but also strange and frightening. He finds that ideas that at first seem logical and benign are not always so when acted out fully and each new town challenges the boundaries of his comfort zone. In his recovery, vague memories of his journeys stay with him causing him to look at his life anew. Now doubtful of the value of his earlier ambitions, he decides to recast his future.