You as the reader will be given a glimpse into the last ninety days of the protagonist Manhattan's life in prison before release after a twenty-year sentence reminiscent about his past crew already projecting the missing of his present crew over the past twenty years of prison, his lover / prison female correctional officer and ending of their relationship, and the stress of having to return to society after a twenty-year gap that may have left him behind compounded with the fact that he is hearing voices telling him to find Genesis, which could mean anything to him. The least he was losing his mind.