Melvin "John" Travis is disgusted with the world. He doesn't care for humanity and prefers to be answerable only to himself. He has his existence all figured out until fate drops Tom Soren, who disappeared 20 years ago, back into his lap.

Tom tells Melvin of a secret project to develop reverse time technology whereby anyone's life could be wiped away from ever existing, resulting in the undoing of every action that they've ever done. Ordinarily, the consequences of this would be far too dangerous to use, but Tom holds the key to protect the bigwigs of the world and...