In the “New Era” ruled by “ClearPure Technologies,” painful memories can be removed, sealed away, and traded. Lina is a top-tier “memory cleaner” who follows the rules and cuts other people’s painful memories from their minds.
She receives a special commission from a man named Eli, who claims to have been “completely wiped clean.” He offers an exorbitant fee to recover his memories of his missing wife. The strange thing is that his “memory bank” is entirely blank, and his identity is a mystery. The job violates both the ironclad rules and the will of ClearPure Technologies, but a flicker of raw, “unwashed” emotion in Eli’s eyes moves Lina.
Risking everything, Lina ventures into Eli’s consciousness and discovers that it is not blank at all, but a maze of encrypted memories riddled with traps. She touches upon Eli’s sealed memories of love and betrayal, and unexpectedly uncovers ClearPure Technologies’ vast conspiracy to treat human memory as the ultimate resource.
As the investigation deepens, Lina is obstructed and watched by unseen forces, while strange gaps begin appearing in her own memory. Horrified, she begins to wonder: has her “clean” memory already been altered? Is her professional creed nothing but a lie?
With pursuers closing in and the truth about ClearPure Technologies coming to light, Lina and Eli, two strangers forced together, must race for their lives through the ruins of consciousness before they are “cleansed” completely. They are fighting not only a tech conglomerate, but an entire society addicted to the belief that “forgetting means happiness.”
Is forgetting a gift or a shackle? Is memory the truth or a program? Follow Lina and Eli as they confront the fears and desires buried deep in human nature, and listen to the echoes someone has tried so hard to silence.
