Noah Oakman is lost. He's had the same best friends since fifth grade and the same parents since forever. An even though he has changed, he feels everyone around him has stayed the same. When his friends drag him to an end of summer party. Noah meets a kid named circuit, in who he senses a kindred disillusionment. Circuit is an amateur hypnotist. Curious (and kind of drunk), Noah allows Circuit to hypnotise him. But when he leaves, everything is a slightly different. Noah swears his friend Alan had a massive collection of Marvel comics, but Alana says he’s always been into DC, its competitor. His friend Val definitely gained internet fame through her posts about movies, but now her entire feed is about music. His mother suddenly has a scar on her face – when asked how she got it, she doesn’t respond. Only four seemingly disparate things remain unchanged in his life. So Noah sets out to discover what these Strange Fascinations have in common, hoping to figure out what happened to him and how he can get back to before.