Jake Calman lives with the aftermath of being kidnapped; Aaron Bension, Walpurgis Delirian, Armen Tertibian and Trace Ben Sola deal with the genocide their families suffered a generation earlier. Their lives have been affected and their identities transformed. They write to reinsert themselves into history. What Remains is developed through a series of three different novellas which explore the theme of what remains after such terrible events.