In the year following the mugging death of a doctor's wife he turns into a drunken vagrant.

On the anniversary of her death he is on the street with a wino friend when a car nearly runs them down.

He pushes his friend to safety but is severely injured and ends up in a coma in the hospital.

He awakens to find himself in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) 150 years earlier - trying to figure out what has happened. 