Tim Ferris, having left his wife after a bitter argument, finds himself drawn to the Southern California desert. Settling in the town of Solino, he is hired to install television channels owned by Nathan Robbins, a secretive and powerful televangelist running as Vice-President on the Republican ticket. Tim meets several people in Solino who begin having similar inexplicable experiences like his own. These include receiving anonymous phone calls and driving to various locations in the middle of the night as if traveling in their sleep. Each one also independently purchases at the town's only...