After his father is killed in car accident, seventeen-year-old Hemingway Jones takes his father's body to Lifebank, the cryogenic preservation research center where he interns. Hemingway succeeds in bringing his father back to life, but he questions the life he has given him as his father's skin has turned ashen gray, he can't exist in temperatures above fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit, and hydrogen sulfide has become his only source of food. Facing arrest for his actions, Hemingway is given an offer: go to prison and leave his dad to die a second time, or replicate the experiment for the owner of the lab.