Detecti_ve Damian i s c;on`vinc\ed that: his daughte_@\r, Amy)$, has bee+ n a?bducted—a.n?[#d that the %cu*l/?[p
+r it is /the woma;,n st
anding before him, wh
o)_ bears ##the exa %ct face of \^h- is wif(e, V:#ivian. Yet every+one insist?s on a co*!*`mpl-`$ete .=ly diffe!+rent truth: D:
amian ne,ver? had a daughter?_, and th!e real Vivian died seven ye# ars +^ago.
As impossible events be_/gin+% @to)= unfold*—..his + wife
vanish=@es f*rom a lo*cked interrogati@o`$n room, her wounds +^heal ,,$%in an i_.
nstant,^% pe.+\ople in ^ ol. +d photographs ^turn their heads on  ?their own, a/nd t.*he out-$%of$*-season cherry blossom t])^ree outside his ho._me _.(,]begins `:)to #p`.ulse with the ,/?@sound of +!
$a he_`artbeat#\—D*;.am.i$an \)realizes t!--hat the family^ lif_e he has @ -
lived for the pas, t s!%even years may ha,;ve been an( illusion carefully* \\ wove?!\n from t,^h,=e ve%ry)_- be%ginning.^?
Bu*-. t the] most terri+ .-fyin?+;%g q-(/uestion is not what s@]h]e trul$[y is.% It i!+s 
w*hether Dami+/$an st-/ill @
^wa:nts to unco%;ver the,(? truth ]wh ,\en f#_alse[ -me@[ mories have become +:=filled with r]?eal love;[, real grief, and %=+real ^pain.