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Your father died in March. Now, in the heat of June, the tech company that archived his mind has finally sent you the login credentials. But the voice on the other end of the line—which sounds exactly like him, down to your childhood nickname—is begging you to destroy the file. If you don't delete him by Friday, his likeness will be rented out to grieving strangers as a commercial product. To delete him, you need the master credentials hidden somewhere inside his cluttered, dusty home. As an electronics repair technician, your hands know how to make dead things speak, but every laptop, smartphone, and old hard drive you crack open reveals a history you aren't sure you were meant to find. Worse, someone else is hunting for those same keys. Whether it's your sister Nora who cannot let go, the smooth corporate rep offering his 'help,' or the quiet neighbor who knows too much, you must work fast. Every conversation you have with the digital replica costs it a piece of its fading memory. Can you lay your father to rest, or will you lose him twice?