When her missing brother resurfaces as the suspect in a public killing, a Newark trauma counselor must prove a respected rehabilitation nonprofit has turned vulnerable citizens into dormant weapons before a citywide activation begins.

SYNOPSIS:

OFF/ON begins with the terror of a normal person becoming violent, waking afterward, and discovering a trusted institution may have used gratitude, trauma, and routine as triggers. Sereya is pulled into the case when her missing brother Devron surfaces as the face of a killing the authorities are ready to simplify. The official frame gives the public a suspect. Sereya sees gaps: ignored frames, evidence that behaves wrong, and a rehabilitation nonprofit with too much access to vulnerable people.

The investigation moves through police rooms, clinics, archives, emergency-drill pressure, trigger language, evidence drives, phones, cuffs, and public messaging. The threat is not one killer. It is a system that can turn people ON, let them wake OFF, and leave them holding responsibility for violence they were conditioned to commit. Sereya has to rescue her brother without letting the institution rewrite him as proof of its own innocence. OFF/ON is a sci-fi thriller about trauma care turned weapon, institutional trust as access, and one woman fighting an activation plan before ordinary workers murder the people who rely on them.