David Leopold Bartton is a loving father and husband who desperately wants to do anything just to cure his critically infected wife, even going so far as to working alongside a supernatural, hive mind creature that wants to change the world. In spite of the lack of joy in his life nowadays, he knows it will all be worth it once he finds the cure he needs.

Having millions in cash, mastery in science, and a role to play in forever altering the world around him used to mean less to Bartton than trying to cure his beloved Marla, but that is until the changing world challenges his guilt.