Plowing the Dark

In a Digital Laboratory on the Shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual-reality researchers rush to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, a young man is held hostage in another empty white room, equipped only with his imagination and memory to navigate himself through his captivity. The two are doomed to meet in the white room of shared imagination that they unwittingly build in common.