Jack and Susanna O'Neill of Grand Island, Nebraska want to do something different with their life, after Jack's increasingly boring years teaching high school history to uninterested students. A quick celebratory post-retirement trip to Mexico City exposes them to possibilities of something more exciting. Curiosity, in their search for a place to retire, leads them to the beautiful 16th century colonial city of Guanajuato in central Mexico. Oblivious to most of what is going on around him, a maelstrom of events and places in a WHEN and a WHERE beyond Jack's control and an indecisiveness to timely confronting life and death almost causes him to lose his life-force.