Paul Sayre, the CEO of Palingenesis, is the driving force behind the company's growth, leading the charge with the battle cry, "Recycle, Re-Use!" The force behind him, however, is his wife Gabrielle, who has an insatiable desire for all things material, and endlessly pushes Paul to continue increasing their wealth.
Gabrielle also enjoys the youthfulness that Hebederm had given her. Ultimately she and other users of Hebederm begin to become afflicted with nightmares and hallucinations involving ghostly creatures with thin necks and enlarged stomachs, resembling the mythical Buddhist Hungry Ghost.
Maggie Bradshaw is a young accountant who is tasked with analyzing the company's inventory of unprocessed and processed tissues. In her job, she has access to all of the company's databases including donor medical information. While reviewing the available data, she discovers unusual causes of death for the donors whose tissues have been shipped from Beijing.
Ultimately Maggie is sent along with a Palingenesis team of executives, to perform a due diligence investigation and analysis of the operations and inventory of the Beijing firm. While there, she begins piecing together the shocking truth about the firm's source of donor tissue...