Patient 719 sits alone in the Asylum pushing buttons on the machine inside his head. He moves his mind between reality and unreality, from the past, into the future, and always in the present.

ONE OLD MAN, 12 different personas, 100 years, and millions of people playing the many "Games of Life," from 1943 to 2043.

Meet Butch, an eight-year-old boy who loves baseball; The Sailor, who plays a part in the Cuban Missile Crisis; Hercules, a bongo-beating teenage poet; Steven, who grows up with that name instead of Dennis; Tex, a high school "Lothario" who has a close brush with death; Nevets, who wishes to remain anonymous; Big Brother, a 21-year-old college freshman; Doc, a professor and chair of marketing at three universities; Ensign Immaculaté, a U.S. Navy Air Reserve Officer; the Right Wabbit and his sidekicks as they adventure throughout Europe; and Patient 719.