This story follows the man responsible for the creation of cryogenics. Stricken with guilt, and desperate to escape the world he helped destroy, he freezes himself in a time capsule set for the distant future. When he awakens hundreds of years later, the world has changed. In this new dystopian world, the only thing that matters is survival. Not from humanity but from nature itself. Organic life has become a contagion, threatening to wipe humans off the face of the earth. Enslaved in a fortress on the African coast, he must serve the Dark Minister as civilization crumbles. Can he hope to survive? Does he even want to?