It's the Great Pandemic of 2044. How would you know if it's real?Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes, the Metaverse, Mixed Reality. The technologies of the future are here today, but twenty years from now, they will be so powerful that it will be nearly impossible to separate truth from fantasy, facts from fiction. In a reimagined South Florida, Lucy and her two daughters will be confronted with not only a strange virus, but with the heavy-handed response of the society-governing Artificial Intelligence known as The Machine. Determining what is real and what is not will become a matter of life and death.