The Mechanics of Memory

What if everything you remember never happened?

A year ago, Hope Nakano’s life revolved around desert sunsets, single malt scotch, waffles on Saturday mornings, and Luke.

Today, not so much.

For the past six months, Hope has been eating organic food, doing yoga, and meditating in the immersive VR programs at the uber-posh Wilder Sanctuary in Rancho Mirage. Which might not be so terrible, if only she were allowed to leave. Or knew why she was there in the first place.

Hope also has little memory of her last year, how she got to Wilder, and why she’s institutionalized.  Employing a variety of unorthodox therapy practices, the doctors at Wilder are working to reconsolidate her memories. Yet their obsession with the Mad Hatters—a vigilante hacker group that exposes corrupt companies—raises Hope’s suspicions about what they’re hiding.

During a VR session Hope receives a coded message from an unknown source, and each subsequent visit presents clues triggering disparate pieces of Hope’s lost year. As more memories continue to surface, Hope finds they are in conflict with what she knows, what she’s been told, and the man she thought she loved.