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Wide-eyed Isla is enchanted to start work at the world’s foremost virtual reality residential facility. How long will it take for the dark truth to hit her, when the staff are just as twisted as their ultra-rich residents.

 

Isla lands an exclusive internship at the world’s foremost virtual reality residential facility. Working under her role model Dr. Roth, wide-eyed Isla has high hopes for the position.

At The Mesa the obscenely rich can pay to be suspended in virtual immortality, bodies never-ageing but minds free inside an infinite simulation which they themselves control.

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What Isla doesn’t realize is that stewarding this simulated Heaven requires a lot of moral compromise. Turning a blind eye to residents who simulate heinous acts. Evicting those who can no longer pay the fee. Even simply knowing that while billions the world over live in poverty, these people had enough money to make themselves immortal Gods in a world of their own making.

It’s not just the morals of the residents that are compromised however. Each member of the small staff have something that keeps them working here, something that lets them compromise their morality. Whether its the promise of virtual paradise for Dr. Roth, the vindication of exacting vengeance on the helpless residents for the janitor and HR officer, or just acting as an unseen voyeur to the hundreds of simulations for the I.T. guy.

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As Isla gets to grips with the day-to-day operations, she has to contend with resident evictions, media intrusions, and learning more than she anticipated about her fellow staff. As her morals continue to be tested, she struggles to find the resolve to do anything. Even then, can she really voice her concerns to the people around her? Should she fight the system from within, flee and tell the world, or just give in. After all, The Mesa has more money than most nations, peddles in immortality, and an afterlife to go with it. How can one person do anything against such odds?