Nicole's father, a journalist in a futuristic English speaking country, offers an in-depth analysis of all the possible cons of the newest technological advancement: a software called Remem, with the ability to instantaneously playback memories, recorded through technology integrated into a person's body. The technology Remem works with is called a lifelog, and functions as a camera installed into the retina that can record a person's entire life, if they so choose. Concerned about the effects of this form of infallible memory recall, Nicole's father begins the process of researching the software and its effects. He begins by interviewing current users, as well as a rep from the company. Everyone interviewed insists that the software does more good than harm, but the journalist is not convinced. It is not until he uses Remem for himself and realizes that a memory of a fight he had with his daughter years ago went very differently than how he had been telling himself it went for over a decade. In his mind, the fight had ended when his daughter, Nicole, yelled at and berated him and then stormed out of the house. Upon rewatching the footage via Remem, he realizes that he was the one in the wrong in the situation, yelling at his young daughter and traumatizing her. The realization shakes his own self perception and is the catalyst for his own journey to use Remem to become self aware, leading to his ultimate conclusion that the new technology is in fact an overall good. The process of investigating Remem brings up philosophical and ethical questions for Nicole's father regarding justice, truth, self-perception, and the ways we make meaning out of language, both written and spoken. To further explore these concepts, he uses a parable-esque story of a young boy named Jijinji and his father Sabe and their village in Tivland, implied to be somewhere in West Africa. In this explicative story, Jijinji grows up illiterate in a culture rooted in oral tradition rather than writing. However, one day a European missionary named Moseby teaches Jijinji how to read and write in his own language. Similar to the journalist himself, Jijinji's newfound literacy, a form of technology, transforms his worldview and how he perceives both his culture and himself.