Imagine yourself so broken as a person that death no longer means the final end of life, but rather a merciful reprieve, the final option that appears as the only way out of a lifetime of pain, isolation, and loneliness. And then imagine you fail in your attempt to take that exit. Dr. David Keating, genius geneticist and biochemist has done just that - but upon his return to the conscious world he considers another alternative: Fixing himself through the sciences he has pioneered throughout his life. But in performing his radical self-experimentation, Keating has done far more than just repair his tragic afflictions; he has both cast himself into a netherworld while unlocking what could very well be the next stage of human evolution - THE ASCENDANT.