Harold Barnes, the recently retired Head and Master Teacher of Westview Academy, dies of a heart attack in a southern California gym. Or did he? Was he somehow alive again in the body of a much younger man? There is his obituary in the Los Angeles Times along with stories of the O.J. Simpson murders. What now will happen to his relationships with family and friends? And what of the young man whose identity and family and friends he must now discover? What happens to him? Could he, for his own reasons, be trying to make a new story of his life? How will he or the two of them make a living? Whose mysterious and at times comical, at times harrowing story is this?