When Martin Fox, champion Formula One racer has a near-fatal crash, he has a life-after-death experience as the doctors work to save his life. As he recuperates, Selena Porter waits for the return of his health and hopefully, his love. But Martin is now obsessed with the possibility of an afterlife. Karl Dorfman, an anaesthetist, is also investigating and experimenting in this field, but with two fatalities behind him he now has to experiment in private. Detective Sergeant William Schaeffer is trying to unravel a series of murders terrorising the back streets and sleazy bars and finds himself more and more involved with these two men and their odd pursuit.