Humans are prone to sin. Thus, the gravest sinners are drawn from the earth to live out a sentence of divinity, eternal life, and atonement in a gloomy paradise where desserts are the only consolation. Ursula is brought to paradise against her will to serve as the record keeper. She must now venture through the fragmented memories of the other gods and record the stories of their mortal past.

The sinners who enter paradise are wiped of their memories. Hence, the recordkeeper must find and record the stories of the gods who spend their immortal days repenting their sins on earth. Ursula enters rooms of their memories and discovers their sins and how they end up in paradise. The encyclopedia is Ursula’s record of the lives, deaths, and stories of gods and their mortal past.