Pierce Black has the life of his dreams. He is happily married, loves his job and has been selected to be the first to pilot a speed of light plane. His life changes drastically three weeks before the flight when his wife is killed in a tragic car accident. During the flight, Pierce is transformed into light and his mind expands. He is then thrown back into his body and falls into a coma. When he wakes, time is not relevant to his mind--he steps in and out of visions of the past and learns his wife's death was not an accident and her murderers are after him.