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It all starts with a book on the wrong shelf, in a library whose name is unknown. The book opens in the middle because inside there is a sheet folded in two. On the sheet there is a message written by a girl. A peer who attends the library finds it. The two begin to exchange messages through the book. They don’t sign themselves with their real names, but like Una and Dan. They try to discover themselves, they tease, they flirt, and they reveal themselves to each other as perhaps they would never have been able to do in person. Little by little, however, an increasingly strange and disturbing reality emerges from their messages. Where are really Dan and Una? What place is the Institute they attend with lots of other kids? Is it a college? Of a special school? Of a reformatory? And why do they have to take a medicine that erases their memories every day? Dan and Una continue to write and record everything, until the reality, more raw and ferocious than any story in the books, breaks into their lives and forces them to come out into the open.