Cette série explore la nature complexe de la mémoire et de l'oubli. La protagoniste, Nora, découvre une clinique conçue pour effacer les souvenirs douloureux, offrant un moyen de surmonter les traumatismes. Cependant, une rencontre fortuite et une révélation choquante sur un souvenir refoulé la obligent à remettre en question l'éthique de la paix fabriquée. C'est une exploration captivante de ce que signifie se souvenir et du courage nécessaire pour faire face à la vérité.
"In Nora's world you don't have to put up with nightmares. Nora goes with her mother to TFC -- a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic. There, she can describe her horrible memory and take a pill to erase it so she can go on like nothing ever happened. But at TFC a chance encounter with a mysterious guy changes Nora's life. She doesn't take the pill. And when Nora learns the memory her mother has chosen to forget, she realizes that someone needs to remember." --page [4] of cover.
Tells, in separate voices, of a near future in which Winter Nomura has had a psychotic break, and her friend Velvet and cousin Aiden, who is visiting from his Swiss boarding school, try to uncover and fix what is seriously wrong with their society, city, and even Aiden's family.