In a mysterious institution, high on a cliff by the side of the sea, a group of inmates wake to find their world has been turned upside down. With no-one left to assist them, the disturbed band must learn what has happened to them before the institution itself claims them as its final victims. Two generations after the events in the institution, a man wakes to find his life spiraling out of control. As an old enemy surfaces to haunt his every waking moment, he must use what abilities remain him to solve a puzzle he thought lost to his past. When a series of events linked to the birth of quantum computing leads the police to question the hand of business in its creation, can one man overcome his fear and save everything he loves? Or are the things he holds dear doomed to fall foul of the single most devastating word in the universe?