On November 14, 1944, the 2nd Ranger Battalion is tasked with sieging the German town of Bergstein, and Hill 400, a highly strategic position that provides the Reich with high ground for artillery.
Jim, a discharged sergeant, arrives in New York to find his mother has died. Grieving, he meets Elena at a bar. She offers him a place to stay, but he's too tired to respond. The next morning, Jim's childhood dream comes true.
Boundaries between parallel universes are collapsing, alter egos are slipping through the crumbling gateway. A ragtag group of misfits accept the mission of saving billions of inhabitants, armed only with a diary of a lunatic.