Larry Smith is a famous artist living a careless life in the world of Paradise, a wonderful and beautiful place in which disease, sickness, aging, or death does not exist, a place where beauty flourishes, where robots do all the work and everyone is free to party all day, watch flyball games, lie on a beach, play music or do whatever they want.
In the world where no one dies and no one gets born appears a mysterious deformed figure of William Scorchfield. William is the total opposite of what Paradise is: in both, appearance, and philosophy. He brings forth the past: death, wars, misery, sickness, and the true and ugly human nature. Driven by curiosity, and urge to understand, Larry pursues William to learn the truth of what Paradise really is.