On a December night in 2022, Walter Copenhagen - eighty years old, alone, and still thinking about the woman he lost sixty years ago - drove his car off a highway in northern Colorado.
He did not die. He dreamed.
For eighteen months, Walter lived the life he had always wanted. He married Ethel Hammond. He raised their son. He served, and came home, and grew old beside the woman who had never left his mind. It was the most complete thing he had ever known.
Then he woke up.