A Zoë Chip is a chip placed in your brain at birth to record your entire life. When you die, the footage from your life is edited into a "Rememory"--a film shown at your funeral pieced together by an editor. A toy for the privileged, Zoë Chips are changing the face of human interaction, but there are those who are against this emerging technology, and believe that memories are meant to fade. Alan Hakman is the best "cutter" in the business; his ability to grant absolution of the sins of his corrupt clients has put him in high demand. However, his talent for viewing life without emotion has shaped him into a cold, distant man and has left him unable to experience life in the first person. He believes he is a "sin eater" and his work provides him with the ability to absolve the dead of their sin. While cutting a Rememory for a high-powered colleague, Alan discovers an image from his childhood that has haunted him his entire life. This discovery leads him on a high intensity search for truth and redemption.

Alan
Will you look at that.

Hasan
So how are things between you and--
Alan
Delila?
Hasan
Yes, yeah.
Alan
I messed up in a big way.
Hasan
Does she want you?
Alan
I need her.
Hasan
May I speak frankly with you, Alan?
Alan
Oh, please.
Hasan
You're a real prick.

Jason
This is great, man. What's that music you're using? I really dig it.
Alan
That's just the opening sequence. The rest needs a little bit more tweaking and clocking. Right now it's clocking in at about 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Jason
You did the son of a bitch right.

Michael
Where's your assistant?
Alan
I don't have an assistant.
Michael
I know a girl who has some experience in the business and--
Alan
I don't work with an assistant. I work alone.

Hasan
Alan, Alan. I'm working on a new sorting program and I'd really dig it if you'd take a look at it.
Alan
Maybe some other time.
Hasan
Yeah, maybe some other time.

Alan
The dead mean nothing to me, Mrs. Bannister. I took this job because I respect the living.

Delila
Why are you here? You know it doesn't work between us.
Alan
I can change.
Delila
You can't change. You're a man of marble. Forget it. Forget me.
Alan
I still have some of your things. You want me to drop them off?
Delila
Keep them as souvenirs.
Alan
You wanna come by and pick them up?

Fletcher
Strange profession you have, isn't it, Alan? You take people's lives, make lies out of them.
Alan
It's been a long time, Fletcher.
Fletcher
Eight years.
Alan
Well, I don't have time to catch up right now.
Fletcher
Oh, how can you handle it, Alan? People sleeping and shitting. People stealing from each other. Manipulating each other. The obscenity.
Alan
I can't talk. I'm working.

Delila
Guillotine. You're like a mortician... or a priest... or a taxidermist - all of them.
Alan
Please don't touch the guillotine.
Delila
And you wonder why it didn't work. The greater part of your life is off limits to me.
Alan
You wanna see what I do? Don't touch.
Delila
No touching.

Delila
What happened with all the bits in between?
Alan
It's a miniature, it's concise and symmetric. That's how the world looks to me. The way I see it.

Jennifer
Sometimes things are best forgotten.
Alan
Perhaps.

Alan
You wanna take a shot too? Everybody else has. I deserved that one.

Fletcher
It's for the greater good, Alan. Your life will mean something. I promise.

Alan
I need to speak to you alone.
Thelma
Michael, why don't you go down to the store and buy some cigarettes?
Michael
We got 8 packs already.
Thelma
Well, bring them back then. We don't need so many.

Fletcher
Is this why you wanted to meet me here?
Alan
I thought it'd be safer this way.

Fletcher
Let me ask you something. Why is your name the first on the list of scumbags and lowlives?
Alan
Because I forgive people long after they can be punished for their sins.
Fletcher
I know what you do. Why do you do it?
Alan
You know what a sin eater is? It's part of an ancient tradition. If someone dies, they'd call for a sin eater. Sin eaters were social outcasts, marginals. They'd lay out the body and put bread and salt in the chest, coins up onto the eyes. The sin eater would eat the bread and salt and take the coins in as payment. By doing this, the sin eater absorbs the sins of the deceased. Clearing their souls and allowing them a safe passage into the afterlife. That was their job.
Fletcher
And how about the sin eater who bears the burden of all these sins?
Alan
Are you worried about my soul, Fletcher?
Fletcher
I will have Bannister.
Alan
I can't give it to you.
Fletcher
You see that man behind me? I don't want to bring him into this conversation, but if you don't work with me I'll have no choice. Alan!

Oliver
So, how is it we know each other?
Alan
We don't.
Oliver
That's the wrong answer, pal.

Isabel
Alan... it's not really Mr. Froggie's birthday. It's in a week.

Mrs. Monroe
Why are they tattooed like that?
Alan
I'm not sure.
Mrs. Monroe
It's so grotesque.

Delila
Your phone call got me all worried. I saw the mirror, what happened?
Alan
I saw something.

Delila
What do you have in this dump?
Alan
Not much. In the cupboards. The cupboard.
Delila
This?
Alan
It's something I've seen in one of my projects. It seemed interesting.
Delila
Ah, what?! This is disgusting!
Alan
I wanna show you something.
Delila
I don't think I wanna see any more of those.
Alan
I made it for you.
Delila
What is it?
Alan
Some implants have a defect. They can't see the difference between what the eye sees and what the mind sees.
Delila
Every time I think I've had it with you, you show me something amazing.

Delila
You fell in love with an image of me. Not the real me.
Alan
At first. Now I want you the way you really are.
Delila
I can't believe you after what you did.

Alan
There'll be nothing I won't know soon.

Alan
My job is to let people remember what they want to remember, Fletcher. It fulfilled a human need. I didn't invent the technology.

Delila
Oh God! Alan! I'm right here in front of you. I see nothing has changed.

Alan
Maybe I could speak with Isabel.
Jennifer
Right now?
Alan
That'd be very helpful.
Jennifer
You remember what I told you?
Isabel
Hello, Mr. Hakman.
Alan
Mr. Hakman is very formal. Name is Alan.