A year ago, a brilliant student at Harvard, nominated for the prestigious Bauer Prize, Eric Archer suddenly begins to behave very strangely: he is haunted by obsessive thoughts about a conspiracy within the walls of the university, and doctors make a disappointing diagnosis - schizophrenia. Very little time passes, and Eric throws himself out of the window of his room on the university campus. Present time Cadence Archer, Eric's younger sister, comes to study at Harvard, despite the opposition of his parents. Her brother's death has left a black hole in Cadi's heart, and she is haunted by questions about why it happened and whether she could have changed anything. And if there is a place where she could find answers to them, then only here. Less than a month passes before Cadi herself begins to hear voices...