Joe Fernwright's skills as a pot-healer are obsolete. Stuck in a miserable subterranean room, he can't even afford to keep up the payments on his window-hologram.
And every week there's a rush to the supermarket before galloping inflation wipes out the value of his dole.
Until the Glimmung offers a way out.
On Plowman's Planet this curiously fallible deity is gathering a team to raise the submerged cathedral of Heldskalla.
Ihe Book of Kalends says it can't be done.
But following an animated conversation with his own corpse beneath the Mare Nostrum, Joe decides to do battle with fate itself...
Star Trek The Next Generation