"The Archive" revolves around a young man living in a world that has seen better days, influenced by a game that corrupts and imprisons all that dare to join in its ways. After year upon year of employment, hope lies for him in a mysterious vision of a town, a vision that he is determined to explore. Acting on his desire he suddenly finds his path entwined with a woman, one of the last remaining of an ancient profession. The woman's job is to make sure humanity remembers those that are gone, and through her the young man is introduced to the life of a world he never would have known existed. But with a troubled past following his every step, he must now take the ultimate leap of faith, abandoning his old life and taking control of an ultimate destiny, living as a collector, the Archive, and trying to survive in a world lost to the violence of humanity.