In the highly digitized, rigidly stratified metropolis of “New Atlantis,” memories have become the most valuable commodities and weapons. The male lead is a “memory hunter” who operates in the gray areas of society, specializing in stealing, altering, and erasing memories. The female lead is the cool and aloof heiress to a vast “memory bank” empire, convinced that digitizing memories is the foundation of social progress. When the male lead is given what seems an impossible assignment, to steal the female lead’s deepest “core memory,” he discovers that her memories have been meticulously altered. A shocking conspiracy surrounding the city’s origins is intertwined with the sealed-away past they share. Forced to go from enemies to allies, they pursue the truth while battling the mastermind who controls everything and confronting the wounds within themselves, as well as their radically different understandings of the nature of “memory.” In the end, they ignite a revolution over the freedom of human consciousness.
