Daisy Conrad, a twenty-five-year-old Academy graduate, had only worked at the Institute of History for five months when she was offered to participate in a secret operation in another place and time. She would be there alone, with complete freedom to choose the means to accomplish the mission. The operation was allotted a year, and upon her return, she was promised rapid career advancement in the direction of her choice. But all memories of what happened during the operation would be blocked.

What really happened there? What is the true purpose of the operation? Who came up with all this and why?