In the year designated Terra Concordia, humanity lives in a perfect, peaceful society. The price of this utopia is time itself: a frantic 121-day year paired with a slow, majestic 72-hour day, all governed by the benevolent, all-seeing eye of Overseer Jael Vance and her planetary AI. Every citizen is implanted with a cranial chip that harmonizes their emotions and curates their memories while they sleep, ensuring a world free of conflict, chaos, and crime.

Dr. Zylos Althen and Dr. Lyra Althen are ideal citizens—brilliant scientists, loving parents, and architects of this new age of peace. Their world shatters when Zylos, analyzing a routine data glitch, uncovers a horrifying secret hiding beneath the surface of their perfect society. Dozens of the planet’s brightest minds are being systematically, surgically altered. Their memories are not just corrupted; they are erased. Their emotional connections are severed, leaving behind brilliant, functional, yet hollowed-out shells; their identities are scrubbed clean with every 72-hour cycle.

Armed with a truth that could bring down their entire civilization, Zylos and Lyra are faced with an impossible choice. In a world where every word is monitored and every thought can be manipulated, to whom can they turn? To ignore the silent, soulless conspiracy is to live in a comfortable lie. To fight back is to declare a secret war against an omniscient enemy that controls reality itself, risking not only their own lives but the very souls of their children.

Their decision will launch a desperate battle for the right to remember, a high-stakes gambit in which the future of consciousness is the prize and the cost of failure is the erasure of everything it means to be human.