In 2139, a century after the world’s collapse, the last city on the California coast still hums with the ghosts of its own machines.
Carroway was built from the ruins of Silicon Valley—a city where memory can be copied, identity can be rebuilt, and humanity is only as real as the data that remembers it. But the lines between the living and the engineered have long since vanished.
Eli Ward, a blond wanderer and repairman surviving in Carroway’s rusted underbelly, hears something no one should ever hear—his own voice crying out through an abandoned signal
“If you find this, don’t let him wake me.”
That message begins a descent into a forgotten world of forbidden technology, vanished scientists, and the truth of what Carroway once was—a city that tried to resurrect its people and ended up cloning their grief instead.
As Eli uncovers fragments of his past, he must confront the possibility that his memories, his emotions, even his humanity, might not be his own. Somewhere in the static, something is waiting—a reflection that remembers more than he does.