Ryley Kolton is a suburban Chicago librarian and stars as the dubious hero. He has a devilish wit and boyish charm that makes him a fair and beloved leader and friend. A dedicated family man, Ryley provides for his beautiful wife and teenage son. He rarely sees the glass half empty and relishes in the fact that he lives the picture perfect life. After his son is involved in a car accident, Ryley realizes the people he thought he knew are strangers, including the one person who he felt would never betray him...himself. He attempts to make sense of his life as conspiracy and mind control threaten his very existence and seem to thwart him at every turn. Little does he know that over the next eleven days he will be compelled to reawaken his survival instincts in an attempt to hold onto the threads of his unraveling life. If not, he will be lucky to come away from the ordeal with his sanity...or even his life.