Detective Charlie Jade is on the trail of the killer of a woman with no identity -- an impossiblilty in the corporate-run world of the Alphaverse. He follows him to a Vex-Cor facility in the desert where a dimension piercing experiment is taking place. At that moment, on the utopian world of the Gammaverse, the environmental activist Reena sets off an explosion that destroys the facility and throws them both out of their own worlds into a third dimension. The Betaverse -- OUR world.