A young man, Edmund, decides to meet a girl he has been talking to online for years. Instead, a menacing stranger comes along that knows everything about him. In the next 24 hours, Edmund is forced to confront the truths of his reality.
The narrative takes place during a pandemic, and concerns a young female writer who is struggling to publish but receives a contract with an unusual employment clause. While writing her novel, she must live alone in a large library owned by the publisher and complete menial upkeep tasks during the nation-wide lockdown.