Bill Andrews is an investment banker at Goldman Sachs who dies of colon cancer in 2012. After he dies, he finds himself in a hallway with beat-up tiles and a door at the end. As he walks towards the door, he notices photographs on the walls of various people he knew throughout his life, but they are out of context and the wrong ages given the dates of the photographs. Bill reaches the door, which opens to the cluttered office of Isaac Harris. Harris is tired and annoyed at Bill's sudden appearance, and he explains to Bill that they've met many times before. Each time Bill dies, he reappears here. Harris himself is in a kind of purgatory; he died in the early 20th century and has been at this desk, directing the recently deceased, ever since. Harris was one of the owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, responsible for the death of many of the women workers who died in the factory fire. His punishment is this job as an intermediary between life and death. Harris explains to Bill that he has two choices — to go through the door to his left and relive his life again, or go through the other door, and end his existence forever. While Bill is initially thrilled about this opportunity, Harris quickly explains the caveat — Bill won't be able to change anything about his life, won't remember the mistakes he made before. Everything will happen exactly as it already has. Bill thinks of the mistakes he's made and the bad things he's done — the game during his childhood during which his brother lost part of his pinky finger, his assault on a woman in a frat-house, his refusal to get a colonoscopy at fifty. And then, as he's done before, every time, he steps through the door on the left. Mrs. Andrews gives birth to a healthy baby boy. It is 1956.