The Bone Doll

Is personal identity something that we generate from within ourselves, or is it something imposed on us by loved ones, by career, by the people and circumstances that we encounter in the course of our lives?

Matt Wheelock and Michelle Lomax find their marriage disintegrating, and they turn to a charismatic philosopher known only as the Teacher for guidance and support. The Teacher, seemingly a man without an identity or even a name, tells them of a sublime universe of mind beyond our own material plane, concealed by the machinations of an unseen conspiracy that benefits from the status quo and will fight to maintain it.

When two of the Teacher’s acolytes die in a very public act of suicide, his odd assortment of disciples find themselves drawn into his world of deception and paranoia. The Teacher and his followers are thrown into a chaotic trek across Mexico and Central America, running toward a haven that only he knows, and from a threat that only he can identify. Along the way, they all find their most fundamental assumptions about who they are being challenged. Some will return unscathed, others will be changed forever – and some won’t make it back at all. At the end of the road Matt and Michelle will find that not only are there no answers to the questions they started out with, but that the questions themselves no longer have any meaning.