Memories are not always what they seem in this unique murder investigation set in the heart of small town America by Andrew Rothschild, one of the writers behind the forthcoming Disney filmWish.
Ten years ago, something terrible happened in the desert town of Porterfield, New Mexico: ninety-one residents abducted and tortured dozens of local children before being stopped by a posse of brave townsfolk.
Except… none of that actually happened. There were no abductions in Porterfield. No torture. No posses. Yet everyone in town remembers that terrible night the same way, and with bracing, horrible clarity:
Everyone in Porterfield remembers kidnapping children, or they remember having been kidnapped, or they remember saving the young victims— or else they remember the anguish of seeing their children/nieces/students tormented at the hands of their friends or neighbors or priests.
For nearly a decade, that shared Memory, despite its demonstrable falseness, has fractured and devastated the once close-knit community, turning neighbor against neighbor, fueling paranoia and mistrust. But ten years on, the town has finally settled into an uneasy peace...
Today, however, on the tenth anniversary of the Memory— and with a crush of unwelcome visitors in town for a Memory “fan convention”— the death of a local teenager threatens to reopen old wounds, deepen fissures, and plunge the town into chaos on a scale it’s never seen.
At the center of the storm is Lieutenant Detective Mason Dillon, whose investigation into the teen’s death pits her against local bureaucracy, esoteric religions, government operatives, and shadowy international organizations as she travels a road from the trailer parks of Porterfield to the heart of the Memory’s most troubling secrets.
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Andrew Rothschild is a Daytime Emmy- and WGA Award-winning writer whose work spans multiple platforms and media. His credits include the indie movie Sequoia, the musical Wish from Walt Disney Animation Studios, and the series Zac & Mia (now on Paramount+). Other work includes the screenplay Hughes, which was featured on the 2017 Black List (a compendium of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays), in addition to pilots and features for various studios / production companies. His literary fiction has been published in The Santa Monica Review.
MICHAEL GAYDOS has worked in the world of the illustrated word and graphic novel for nearly 30 years. His list of credits include work for Marvel, DC, Random House, Dark Horse, Image, IDW, NBC, White Wolf and Onyx Path among others. With writer Brian Michael Bendis, he is co-creator of Jessica Jones for Marvel, who has her own Disney+ series, and Pearl for Jinxworld. Michael's fine art work has also been the subject of a number of solo exhibitions and his art is in private collections worldwide. In 2015, at Galerie Ardulik in Paris, Michael had a solo exhibition of his original art from both Alias and Jessica Jones.
