Jeff Russell is a tormented and troubled soul experiencing the same 'recurring vision' since childhood. It depicts him standing at the edge of a sea cliff, waving his hands frantically to deter a stampede of animals heading towards him, followed by the smiling faces of an elderly couple that momentarily appear and then fade away. One day, his mentor, Fred Walters, claims he has encountered an angel and hands him a platinum ring and a silver coin. Later, Jeff is visited by a mysterious lady, who informs him that she is sending him into a different time zone through his dreams to find his 'missing' parents, using the two items and bronze trinket with a lace around it; so he will literally morph into a completely different being. But danger lurks ahead in the form of the Vertrons, rogue reptilian-robots who serve their leader, the deadliest of all, The Crystal Entity