Joe, a bright young American, fails to confront the reality of separation from his English scientist wife. It's three years since she deserted him, with no explanation then or since. His life's in a tailspin. As unexpectedly as she left, she returns center stage in his life, the pregnant concubine of a wealthy ex-terrorist, the target of assassins, and at the center of a spectacular demonstration of her consort's suspicious powers. Joe's struggle to unravel the mysteries surrounding his wife ensnares him in a world of suffering and violence as the unwitting ally of her persecutors. Joe is mentally unready and spiritually unsuited for what lies in wait for him. He cannot accept the evidence of his senses. His mind unglues as he hunts for a rational explanation of what is happening to him. His dream of winning his wife back disintegrates before his eyes, painfully demolished by an unborn baby that he wishes had never been conceived, a baby whose life his wife and her consort value above his, a baby whose fate hangs in the balance along with the world as we know it.