In the future, everyone stops aging at 25 and to extend your life you have to buy time, which is now the currency. A poor man gets wrapped up in a conspiracy when it is believed he has killed someone for their time.
Set during the Essex Rebellion against Elizabeth I, this thriller presents the theory that Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, actually wrote Shakespeare's plays.
A social worker campaigns to save a little girl from her abusive parents, but the case is not as clear cut when supernatural events start to surround them.