The gates between lifestyle and death have already been opened. Musician Jack port Logan holds the key. In the streets of New York, he brought a man back in the dead-in ordinary and shocking view of a TV news camera crew. Now the whole world is aware of his miraculous power. The mass media wants to expose him; the scientists to exploit him. But most severe of all, the tortured souls of the dead-including his very own mother-are reaching out through the void, luring him into the eternal domain, transforming his gift into the greatest curse. Living or useless, they battle to seize and control the secret that lies beyond the . dark horizon.