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A regression therapist wakes up in a world in which everyone can recall their past lives.

In an alternate world when everyone remembers all of their past lives, regression therapist Mary McNeal discovers that her inability to remember her past lives is a blessing in disguise.. and a much sought-out commodity in a world where people are intent on avenging past grudges.—Gislef

Past life regressionist Mary McNeal is in her office, using hypnosis on her patent Loraine Gustin to take the woman back through her previous lives. Loraine says that she was a dressmaker in previous, and Redcoats set her shop on fire. Mary brings Loraine out of her trance, while letting her remember what she's seen.

Loraine leaves, telling Mary that now she understands why she's afraid of fire and men in uniforms. The patient asks Mary if she remembers her own past lives. Mary says that she has never been able to, but keeps trying. She goes into her office, lies on the couch, and uses a tape to regress herself. Mary wakes up on her couch without remembering her past lives, and plays the tape back. She listens for her hypnotized self saying something about her past lives, but there's nothing. She goes to meet with one of her patients, Mrs. Vivencore, and apologizes for oversleeping. Ms. Vivencore wonders if they've met, and recites her past life immediately as a corporal in World War II. A baby cries inside, and Ms. Vivencore says that she has no time for such foolishness and goes to check on her baby.

Mary goes to the employment office where she works and hears two men casually discussing their past lives. They walk out past Mary, and Mary lets herself into "her" office. A man, Jim Sinclair, is inside, and says that it's been his office for the last two years. Jim asks if she's out of work, and Mary explains that the world apparently changed, and there's no one else to talk to. He says that many people have trouble adjusting to their new lives, and asks her to finish a form and then they'll talk. Mary takes a seat, fills out the form, and gives it to Jim. He has no idea what a regression therapist is, and she dismisses it as nothing. He notes that she didn't list anything from her previous lives, and Mary says that she didn't know that she could. Jim explains that if someone has developed skills in a previous life, it will help them in this list.

Jim tells Mary to run through a list of jobs she had in previous lives, starting with the most recent Mary says that she felt she lived during the Depression, but doesn't have any references. She apologies for taking up his time and leaves. Once he's alone, Jim calls someone and says that he just met a woman who isn't a new soul, but can't remember her past lives. He gives Mary's name and agrees with the person on the other end that Mary could be the one they're looking for.

Later, Jim meets with a man and they discuss Mary's apparent lack of past lives. The other man, Vigilante, thinks Mary is hiding something and they should bring Mary in if they don't decide to kill her first.

Mary wanders the streets and sees people living in cars. She talks to one ailing woman, who tells Mary to let her die in peace. She insists that Mary can't take away her right to die, and she's chosen exposure and sleeping pills. Mary asks why the woman wants to die, and the woman says that in her last life she had a nice life and people liked her, but now she's a homeless woman in a grotesque body. She wants to die and start over. Mary insists that she cares because the woman is needed in this lifetime, and surrendering is wrong. Mary says that she has no one, and suggests that they live over. She takes the woman's hand, and the woman nods in agreement. Mary goes to get help, and runs into Jim. She asks him for help, and her grabs her and takes her to a nearby van. Vigilante is there, and injects Mary with sedative. Before they drive off, Vigilante tells Jim to get the woman an ambulance.

Later, Mary wakes up in an abandoned jail with Jim and Vigilante watching over her. She asks them why they abducted her, and Vigilante says that they're a group not sanction by the government and they seek out people like her, and he asks who she is. He says that someone not remembering their past lives is irregular, and they can't find any paperwork that she exists. Vigilante says no one will miss her if she disappears for good, so it's in her best interest to cooperate with them. Mary tells him that she doesn't remember any past lives, and wonders if she's hiding someone abominable from a past life.

Jim tells Vigilante to leave Mary alone, and she might be the one they're looking for. Vigilante says that they'll soon find out if Mary is telling the truth, and injects her with sodium pentothal. The two men question her, and even under the drug's influence Mary doesn't remember any past lives. They double the dosage, even though it could kill her.

Later, Mary wakes up and Jim apologizes, saying they had to make sure she was telling the truth. Vigilante asks if she'll work for her, and she refuses initially. He says that she's a healer, and they want her to help them forget who, what, and where we were. Vigilante explains that people are going mad, and it gets worse with every generation. No one fears death because they come back in a new life, but death is with them and they're too busy avenging the past to live in the present. It's the waking horror of their everyday existence.

Mary wonders what she can do to help them, and Jim asks her to share the past to let the past be swallowed in silence, so they don't carry grudges across the centuries so they can live in the moment, making their lives as they can be. He says that they've waited a long time for one like her, and asks her to help them forget.

Later at the employment agency, Jim sets Mary up with her own office. They bring in the woman, Ruth Warden, and Mary hypnotizes Ruth into forgetting her past lives, and starting her new life afresh.