Botanist Elias Vance travels to the isolated village of Aethel in the Canadian Rockies to study the Bryum memoria, a glowing cobalt moss revered in local folklore. He expects to find a scientific marvel, but what he discovers is far more profound: the moss is a sentient, silent archive, absorbing the deepest human trauma—the memory of catastrophic mining accidents, betrayal, and sudden death—to keep the town emotionally stable.
