After suffering a cardiac malfunction, Leo regains consciousness in his childhood home, where his long-deceased mother assures him that he is also dead.
But how can dead people have such intense feelings?
he wonders upon crossing paths with his unforgotten sweetheart, Elise. When she perished all these years ago, leaving a large void in his teenage heart, he did not doubt that she was lost forever. Yet here they are, one aged and one still exuberantly young, in a world with no mirrors and imperatives, where space folds and the inhabitants can shape-shift.
In between sexcapades, Leo tries to ponder the nature of this realm and little Lizzy wishes to have grown old, like the people that she can see and interact with. As time advances secrets, taken literally to the grave, are revealed, sometimes with hard-hitting consequences.
A phenomenon colloquially referred to as "the drift" tortures Leo's mind. If his hypothesis is correct, then time will not be kind to Elise. To complicate matters she is displaying all signs of carrying a child in a world with no children. Will she give birth and if so, to what?