This science fiction adventure story is set in the country of Erasia, on planet Orb. Here time runs backwards. You are raised up out of the ground as an old person full of experience, knowing everything about the future. As you dutifully follow through the main events of your life, as mapped out for you by the Goddess of the underworld from where you came, all knowledge of them is progressively erased. Ultimately, as a helpless baby knowing nothing, you are inserted in your mother's womb. Nine months later: oblivion. But the man, Nomolos, yearns for the freedom to decide for himself what he should do with his life. This sets him on a collision course with the sinister Portent Enforcement Agency...