Through several life times Tommy must fight a demon named maximus in order to be reunited with his eternal love Nyle. On an island in the forest in the city and in the desert, with the hero the lover the fake the child the wise old man Each life teahes him a lesson as he comes closer and closer only to realize in the end the true nature of what he is fighting. symbolically he learns what maximus means to him as well as nyle and the ture nature of love and hate.