After Professor Lawrence Miller's teenage son Val's tragic death from a drug overdose, he cannot shake the sense that his son's soul is lost and wandering between heaven and earth. Grieving and deeply disturbed, he commits suicide, pursuing his son into the afterlife. Lawrence's soul awakens and immediately encounters his deceased father who has arrived in order to help him transition. Lawrence rejects his father's offer, choosing instead to stay in the 'seam, ' the middle ground between heaven and earth, so that he can find his son and seek retribution. Lawrence embarks on his search for Val, beginning at his son's grave. Lawrence begins to wage a brutal campaign of retribution against those responsible for the drugs that killed Val. His existence becomes a terrifying conflict between his unchecked anger... and his instinctive knowledge that he has lost his way.