An old man stumbles on the ultimate Truth to life and the universe, but there is only one person he can tell-a young man who is unstable, dangerous, and on the run. The young man, Matthew, escapes from a psychiatric hospital and heads into the mountains, armed and desperate. He stumbles out of a snowstorm onto a farm, where he finds the old man, Jack, who eerily resembles Matthew's hated father. Years ago, Jack woke from a coma, with a bullet in his head. And with a strange source of enlightenment, which reveals to him how the universe works and how to make it bend to his will-which he does...