Cloistered in the womb of 'Space, the consummate hyper-virtual reality, humanity sinks into entropy as the slow decay of life, and the environment await them at the end of time. There are rumors of things in 'Space, of people disappeared, a seductive destroyer that people at the end of their sanity go to meet in the badlands between the Slabs of virtual reality. People converge in 'Space and Flesh and their lives intersect. The intersecting lives are very far away in outlook and distance, but various circumstances occurring in 'Space slowly shift their intersections tighter and tighter. There is Ruby who comes back to her hometown of Cleveland after an aimless life to work as a Courier transporting samples of information. There is Lin, imprisoned in the secure compound in Wyoming, who spends his time acquiring people, and illegal cyber-weaponry. He also steals memories from a man named DeLote. Other people and names begin to emerge with their own agenda: J'Qwan and Hylinski, Sweetman, Marika and Berke. They all make decisions that impact their lives and slowly shift their intersections both in Flesh and 'Space. All these lives whirl closer, until one event collides their lives and forever changes the world.