The planet is gripped by an epidemic of suicide among teenagers, the causes of which cannot be determined. The government is trying to counter the new pandemic with the help of the Program, a project for the treatment of young men and women prone to suicide. Program employees - handlers - forcibly take sick people to a hospital, where their memory is selectively erased, removing “infected” memories that cause depression... and thereby turn them into obedient and happy zombies. How to survive and preserve your self if you can’t trust anyone - not even your own parents and friends? Young Sloane Barstow and her friend James Murphy are trying to find an answer to this question. They are confident that they will have the courage to resist the Program...