A woman and a girl hunt for themselves in a deserted future.

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The story centers on a woman named Woolf and a young girl she finds on her travels. Three and a half centuries in the future Woolf finds a device that allows her to ‘take’ other people’s memories as though they were a drug. This device implants the memories on the user’s mind and over time distorts the user’s reality. Early in the story Woolf discovers her estranged daughter has been killed, but the teen may have had her memories recorded for use on this device.

While searching for her daughter’s lost past she instead finds Tin, a girl orphaned by the same contract killers who murdered Woolf’s daughter. They team up. As the story progresses through their adventures, Woolf feels more and more like she should be a surrogate mother to Tin. This feeling is complicated by her inability to ignore the calling of the memory device. Her addiction and her perceived obligation are always in conflict. Eventually (of course) they catch up with the oddball, contract killers and Woolf needs to make a choice about who needs her most; the little girl without anyone or the empty memories of people she never met. The choice seems obvious of course, but to an addict things are much messier.