Basically, Virago is a really pissed off haridan, killed by a "jack the ripper" kind of guy. This guy who can only be related to St. Peters gives her the choice of either chilling in limbo, or going back to earth and existing there. The catch is that limbo would be approximately three hundred years, while earth is indefinite; could be a few months, could be a millenium. So she's immortal, but only virtually (so if we were in a viedo game, we couldn't kill her). The thing is, when she figures out the answer, she'll become mortal, and die all over again, and go to heaven. Or hell, if she wanted to, but Satan smells like hangovers.

Yeah, she lives on earth, but in a different reality that we live. For instance, she can see the living as well as the dead. But they're not dead, they're just in a different space-time continuum than we live. It's not ridiculously uncommon, there's about ten or twelve people like Virago (called "The Others") who live in this Abeyance. They've all chosen to live back on earth instead of Limbo.

Thus begins the journey of Virago. She doesn't know what she's looking for, just that it's "The Answer", but she doesn't even know the question in the first place. It's mostly a lose-lose situation, but at least she's not floating around with a bunch of dead babies. She develops a new life, moves to a new city, has new friends, but she's looking for the guy who killed her. His name is Max. He's fat, he's ugly, he's mean, he has a wife and a kid. No one knows that he's a serial killer. In fact, Virago was good friends with the family before her death. Now she's out in the Abeyance, looking for an answer, looking for the question, and maybe gets a shorter life sentence out of it.