“Hey Jindy, I hear you got that forgetting business,” said Jimmy Sugarbag. The entire population of Kerosene Creek village disappeared overnight and Jindy Kelly can’t remember a thing about it. Sister Thomas calls it “hysterical amnesia”. They take her back to the ghost town to help her remember, and she is quickly overwhelmed by the madness that led to the cataclysm. The insanity of the Irish commune leader, the betrayal by her oldest friend, the Chinese boy she loved, and her Ngunnawal mother, condemned to hang for witchcraft and murder.