A young physicist, fallen through time for 38 years in a disastrous clandestine experiment, gains superpowers and returns to a world torn apart by war between his former compatriots. Pursued by intelligence agencies around the world as a living weapon and the key to limitless energy, he must find a way to stop the bloodshed by creating an army of "enlightened" soldiers, while risking losing the remnants of his humanity and becoming a tyrant.