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An assassin, on a solitary mission to prevent first contact, is presented with the ghost of his former lover and partner, and forced to work through the grief that he has been repressing for years.
A teenage boy's understanding of his society's mode of punishing people for the thought before they can commit the crime is complicated by his own coming-out process.