A dead soul returns once every year to visit his friends. His perspective changes when he realizes that he stays the same while those he cares for eventually move on with their lives. The soul looks for a way to cope with the endlessness and inevitability of time.

Departure with the Dead

Before the stories of George Whitebrooke — discover how his former colleague, Geoffrey Adams, makes the gloomy choice of intervening in an exchange where great powers are involved in cataclysmic operations.