Gabriel Goodman leaves his law firm for a vacation by the ocean, ostensibly to study hypnosis. Gradually he is drawn into his unconscious mind, in trance, where he must face his past and makes choices that decide his identity. But first, he must learn to trust the White Shadows, ancestral spirits who teach him spiritual healing, guiding his quest from the unreal to the real, from fragmentation to wholeness, and from darkness into light.