Flynne Fisher spends her life on the side of the highway in the America of the near future, where there are hardly any jobs other than illegal drug brewing. He used to earn a lot as a combat scout in an online shooter, but had to give up on those games. Yet he witnesses a brutal murder when he exceptionally replaces his brother as a virtual security guard.

Wilf Netherton is an influential publicist by profession who learns of the death of one of his client's brothers in a society where delving into the past is just one of many hobbies. Seventy years later, he lives in London, suffering a slow apocalypse, where things are still promising for the wealthy. It is true that most of the poor are no longer alive.

Flynne and Wilf will meet each other. During their story full of time travel, ghosts, combat drones, assassin robots and kleptocrats, the woman's world will change completely and irrevocably, and the man's will be faced with the fact that rewriting the past is extremely dangerous.