Elbert MacAvoy can't escape his past in the jungles of Vietnam. Terrible things happened to him out there - and he himself did terrible things. Lisa Jayne, his newest psychiatrist, can't escape her future or her dead father. She blames herself for his death. Their fates entwine. Elbert's old boss wants to kill them both and use their bodies. The jungle merges with the hospital. Time has become ambiguous. But it is running out for both of them.