At the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Hannah Rossier, formerly Annie Price, comes face to face with Neville Weir, someone from her childhood whom she never expected, or wanted, to meet again. As Nevilleโs reasons for attending the conference become clear, the dark waters of Hannahโs past start to rise. Hannah is a psychotherapist, with a specialist interest in memory and how connections are made between past and present. She has reinvented herself successfully, moving from a small northern town in England to Lucerne, Switzerland, with her husband, Thibaut. Nobody, not even Hannah, knows the full truth about herself. Her โmemoriesโ consist of glimpses of the place where she played in childhood, known simply as โThe Wildโ. Over the three days of the conference, she has to decide whether she can avoid Neville or whether she should submit to an encounter with him and her past. She must also decide how much to reveal in her keynote lecture about the neuroscience of memory. But can her specialism save her from drowning?