Unable to cope with the emotional distress of postpartum depression, Vampirella begins to devolve into a dark psychosis, imagining the best future for her infant son is perhaps no future at all. Meanwhile, the mysterious stranger claiming to be Cicero, Vampirella's infant son somehow transported back from half a century in the future, provides a glimpse of that dark future to Vampirella's therapist, Doc Chary, to whom Cicero has turned for help.