Fresh from college, Regina is determined to make her mark as a scientist-but she can't escape the vivid, private universe of her imagination. Drawn into a decades-old controversy that tarnished her family's name, she sets out to redeem her grandfather, Roger, a 90-year-old retired scientist whose radical theory that thoughts can be transmitted like viruses was dismissed as fantasy and her ancestor Ricardo, condemned for daring to claim that jellyfish can visualize evolution.

When Regina digs deeper, she uncovers a haunting mystery: the deadly explosion known as The Obliteration, which destroyed Grandpa Roger's research institution thirty years ago. As she dares to ask the questions others are too afraid to, Regina blurs the line between fact and speculation-and in doing so, she discovers that imagination might just be the key to unlocking the future of science itself.