After a tumultuous childhood, TV repairman Bob Nelson had finally found a sense of stability for himself and his young family--until the day he discovered Cryonics: the freezing of human beings. Nelson devoted himself to cryonics, passionately struggling to preserve the lives of close friends and others--including a young girl dying of cancer--until a future day when advances in science would enable them to be reanimated and potentially cured of their ailments.