A killer undergoes brain surgery instead of facing death, but danger follows them regardless.

An aging woman visits her childhood friend in the basement of a wealthy woman’s home where she cooks. She’s fascinated when her friend describes her employer’s religious practices and wonders if new scripture might help her navigate her life.

To cut costs during the mid-21st century financial crisis, a biotech company promising immortality disposed of some of its cryogenically preserved bodies. But one of its employees secretly held on to one of these bodies—a young woman who died of cancer in her twenties—and has been obsessed with taking care of her ever since.