The past is a refuge for retired exotic meat collector Caffrey Quark, a place and time where he can lose himself in the one thing that gave his life meaning: rock & roll.¿ But a blue android, a purple-eyed woman and a dog who is more than he appears are just a few of the interruptions to Caffrey's idyllic life that send him on a quest to save the Wisest Substance in the Universe, the all but mythical L'Orange--not to mention life as we know it.