Death has never been closer. After waking up to a world where the living can no longer see his face or feel his touch, Joel is thrown into the paradigm of part-timers — souls forced to repay the debt of their misspent lives by helping the more fortunate deceased to move on. Trapped by the morally esoteric Angels, Joel is quickly discovering that there are many worse things than death, and he will have to put more on the line than his flesh and blood to find the answers he needs.