True immortality for humans is just a dream, but with the Scheffing process, the extremely wealthy can purchase the next best thing. For an exorbitant fee, the Scheffing Institute will make a copy of your mind's 'persona', hold it in storage until your death, and then transplant it into sub-layers of the brain of a willing (and paying) host. The result for the host is immediate access to the persona's memories, knowledge, experiences, and judgment ... for the persona, it means full consciousness and thought-communication with the host, but without physical control of the host's body. When this futuristic tale unfolds, the brilliant and powerful multi-billionaire Paul Kaufmann has been dead for several months, and Scheffing Institute administrator Francesco Santoliquido must make the difficult decision of assigning Mr. Kaufmann's persona to a compatible host. With a personality as strong as Paul Kaufmann, Santoliquido must be wary of the chance that the persona could take over control of the host's body--known as "going dybbuk." The only two men strong enough to control Paul Kaufmann's persona are the ones who could benefit from it the most: Paul's nephew and current executor of the Kaufmann empire, Mark Kaufmann--and Mark's primary business rival, John Roditis of Roditis Securities. But the secret struggle for possession of Paul Kaufmann's persona takes an unexpected turn when Mark's 16-year-old daughter Risa gets involved...