When a traffic accident takes the life of Joe Grant and his young daughter Elizabeth, it puts them into a twilight world. Neither dead nor alive, they join a community of thousands of other "souls" who, like them, pass the days trying to understand what has happened to them, and-even more important-what is to become of them. They discover that many people remain trapped in this existence for a long time, but some do "leave." How and why is a mystery. People from every period of human history live in this town without a name. A Pilgrim from the 1600s, frontiersmen and settlers from the...