Jerry and Melanie Blake have a son named Adam, and on the same night he was born, a comet passes by their house. He is then imbued with strange powers and becomes a man out of time. Adam grows up very isolated from everyone else, having a vast intellect and array of powers that he must hide from the world. He eventually goes through school, pretending everything is okay, when he graduates and becomes a librarian. He eventually meets Emery Zackro and through him, Adam beings to truly figure who he is and how he can help the world.