Maddie Hester lives in a world ruled by technology. 10 years ago it was announced that a ground breaking technology had been developed that made it possible for a person to completey reset their life. The reset erased all pain and trauma and set you on the path to a perfect and pain free existance. The reset individual went to The Befores, a perfect utopian society filled with the wealthiest of the wealthy. They also held the power to send anyone they choose to a purgatory called The Afters. 

With parent turning against child, brother against brother, friend against friend and neighbor against neighbor in pursuit of the perfect life who could you trust? What transgressions are unforgivable? Who deservesa life sentence? In a world where your past can come knocking at your day at any second, who would be safe?