The city of Verence, between the 1980s and 1990s — and the childhood and adolescent memories of Adam Kentin, 26, who cares about almost nothing outside his orbit of horror movies and video games. Seven years ago, a bitter fight with his parents sent him out the door. Now they have called him back for a week in the old house. Adam returns expecting nostalgia. What surfaces alongside the memories are fears and secrets he has spent years not looking at, in a journey through time-distorted versions of a past that is less settled than he thought.