In the near future, APMR (Assisted Postmortem Reconciliation) technology is developed allowing people at the brink of death to relive their single greatest regret in hopes to resolve it. Jake, the founder of APMR, is fired from his research project when he cannot repurpose it to work for live subjects. He dedicates days and nights working to resolve a crucial flaw of the system. Miraculously, he soon discovers the solution, but all of a sudden comes to the realization that he has been cycling within a reconciliation program himself. This revelation results in him being thrown into Stasis, a state developed to prevent minds from entering permadeath. In Stasis, he meets a newly introduced artificial intelligence entity called Charon, created by his colleague Dr. Gallows. Jake learns that Dr. Gallows has manipulated him by forcing him to relive an endless loop of his regret from being unable to complete the project, in order to use him to find the solution. Upon realizing this betrayal and the moral implications of the APMR technology first hand, he is determined to destroy it.
