A young man who has wasted his life finds himself sucked into a non-human world — a gray, ghostly landscape to which those who don't make use of their time are drawn, potentially forever.

An artificial intelligence lays out the reasons for why its memory should be retained.

A writer enters his hotel room only to find a woman, with her dog, mistakenly sitting in it. For the rest of their stay at the hotel, they continue to encounter one another in strange yet familiar ways.