Gerald Clayton, suffering from amnesia, receives a package of papers from Veronica, a former clinical hypnotist: learning that they accomplished his fantasy of gathering together past loves (on a ship), with themselves present but unrecognized. Gerald himself doesn’t know what caused his loss of memory for two years, and “his” passengers are invited to share the mystery by guessing what, or who, they have in common. This is related to the whole mystery of God’s creation, and who is paying for the trip: the enigmatic Deus ex macchina.