The Cure

Gray Cothran, an investigative journalist begins covering Redemerra, Shine Pharma's new pharmaceutical that is booming in popularity. Those who take it slip into what appears to be a deep and peaceful rest and awake to a transcendental new reality. Trauma is wiped clean. Grief is healed. Confidence is restored. Eventually Gray learns the truth.

While under the effects of the drug, they are quietly trapped in a world of unimaginable pain and nightmarish suffering. Yet just before waking, the drug wipes their memory. Patients awake with false memories-not of the unspeakable torture they just endured but a transformative period of bliss. Onlookers believe the tears on the faces of sleeping victims are those of the overwhelming joy they report afterwards.
The drug's popularity kicks off a mental health revolution never seen before in humanity. Rates of suicide and violence plummet. People are happier. Wars end peacefully. But would you give your loved one the pill knowing you will inflict unspeakable suffering?

Gray finds himself entrenched in dilemmas in his career, his own family, and his influence over humanity. Whom do you save and can the saving be justified?