The book first discovers Seshan. He lives in a village north of Chiang Mai. For him Buddhism is not a religion or philosophy. It is simply to sit. Seshan discovers in his transcendence a sacred child and goes forth and travels alone, against great odds to find and protect her. Meanwhile, Spartac, a scientist at the university of London, covertly convening with government, is desperate to find a concept to complete his equations. His sentient quantum computer has calculated the location of that very child. She is both Love and The concept. Together, Seshan and Spartac find one another across the expanses of time, where, they discover that not only is she needed by the presence of peace in our time, but for the peace of the threat of wars in the distant future too.