All Sterling knows is that he's waking up in a laboratory. His memory of the last six months is missing. The scientists running the facility inform him of a voracious fungus spreading across the galaxy and devouring all life. They have administered a treatment that purged any infection but temporarily damages short-term memory. He is introduced to a young lady named Jessica, who is meant to be his new and only companion in this scientific equation. Desperate to be something more than a mindless lab rat, Sterling searches his mind for his life before all this. He remembers his brother, Brody, who is currently searching the skies for an uninfected planet on which to start a new civilization. But his mind also recalls being in love with a woman. What was her name? Is she safe? Is she close? How can he get back to her? And if he finds her in this quarantine, would they allow him to be with her again? Who wins when passionate love fights the system to be united again?