When an artist returns to the home where he spent summers as a child, what he finds will either help him put his past to rest, or drive him over the edge of sanity.
In the aftermath of a small-town massacre, Venus McKenzie and her friends each try to deal with the fallout in their own way, not knowing that they are being pulled in the same direction: towards the pulpit of the Church of the Sandmen.
Generations into the future, a crew of renegades known as the Skyscrapers uncover their disturbing human past after a sinister Artificial Intelligent being stores all relics of human history - guarded by monstrosities - throughout our known galaxy.