After many years, with help of Thetis and negotiations between Zeus and Hades, the Greek hero Achilles is released from the Underworld into the modern world.

Much to his wife’s chagrin, Michael can’t seem to settle on the ending to his latest novel. Even though he has owed the publisher for some time now, he keeps deleting and tweaking the ending to his tale of horror, with each change ultimately affecting the outcome of the group of teens who are being killed one by one by an unknown killer in his story.