In Montreal, 2050, death has become a commodity — and even a person's final memories can be accessed through legally binding contracts.
Calips, director of a small assisted-suicide agency, performs these post-mortem readings with the detached precision of someone who has long stopped questioning the world around him.
Until a routine extraction leads him into a quarantined fragment — a forbidden memory sealed away without explanation.
What he uncovers pulls him into a search for truth that becomes his mission, driving him toward a breaking point he never saw coming.
If Calips fails, society will lose more than privacy — it will lose its right to remember, to grieve, and to choose.
But if he succeeds, he may reclaim the one thing he thought forever lost: his own humanity.
A psychological techno-thriller for readers who appreciate atmospheric dystopias in the spirit of 1984 and the quiet emotional devastation of Never Let Me Go.
