The Rashomon Device

In the gleaming corporate state of Veridia, celebrated actor Victor Hale is found dead on opening night. Five witnesses remember the murder differently, and each memory is backed by invasive neural recordings. Investigative journalist Elena Voss discovers that a neurotechnology firm has perfected a tool to rewrite recollection. As the state's bureaucratic machinery protects its own secrets, the truth drowns in a sea of manufactured certainties, and arrogance becomes the accomplice to tragedy.