Clayton Shaw is, by all accounts, a good man. He helps his father on the farm and cares for his sick mother, and his little sister loves him. He is pretty sure that he is in love with Amber, the girl down the road, and has a whole life planned out for them. That is until Claton has the worst day of his life. With just one push in the wrong direction, he finds himself dead and stuck in The After. In The After, Clayton is doomed to fight to get along with Takis, a 2,000-year-old Greek man, as his work partner while having to report to Feme, an even older Egyptian prostitute who hates his guts. Clayton is sure that he was meant for Paradise, or rather, The Brilliance, and that someone must have got something wrong. Now, it is up to him to find a way out and where he is meant to be.