A lifelong devout Mormon wakes up in a hell after passing away from cancer. He is shocked to find that he had been devoted to the incorrect religion his whole life. The demon who assigns each person to their own personal hells sends the Mormon to an infinite library based on the short story "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges. The library has seemingly no end, separated by floors, with a chasm in the middle in which you can see across to another side of a floor. Each floor is filled with an unimaginable amount of books. The people in this hell can only leave once they find a book which details their entire life with no mistakes. The trick about the infinite library is that it contains every book imaginable that could ever possibly be written. So the Mormon soon finds out that because of this, most of the books are complete gibberish. The people who are in this hell can request any type of food or drink imaginable at kiosks on each floor. They need food and drink to survive still, but also cannot die. If they are injured or killed, they are resurrected the next morning. The Mormon's entire world is turned upside down as he had never considered to be any alternate ending than the heaven he prepared for as a Mormon on earth. He spends hundreds of years either falling through the chasm, hoping to catch up with someone he loved in this hell, or traveling up or down floors in search of someone. For a number of years some people in this hell formed a cult which hunted down others and tortured them throughout the day. The Mormon spends hundreds of hundreds if not thousands of years searching for his life book, but never comes across it.
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