Ten-year-old Ashlyn O’Monahan liked to play designer. She was a happy kid until she witnessed the death of her firefighter father responding to a routine car accident. It ended with an explosion.

Twenty years later, Ashlyn has erased every memory from that night, the pain of losing her father had been too much to bear. Choosing the illusion of safety, Ashlyn believes she has a perfectly balanced life.

In actuality, her love life is in tatters, her career looks nothing like what she had envisioned and the sudden appearance of a grizzled old man outside her office building forces her to face her reality. None of her treatments– not for her experiments, not for her relationship, not for the nightmares that the grizzled old man inspires – are providing the outcomes she’s expecting.

When she lets go of the steering wheel, the truth begins to present itself. It is then that she can solve the riddle and unlock the meaning of Fein cretim.