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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 1782783" data-attributes="member: 649">The why: [spoiler]Aliens have been here for a long time. They have the ability to mess with people's memories at will, and as such do all kinds of experiments and manipulate society on a daily basis. The government is "in on it," but only to the extent that they're powerless to stop the aliens so they simply try to minimize the damage to people and society.In this case an experiment is running where the aliens take away people's children and then re-write everyone's memories to make it as though the children never exisisted. Part of what they're testing is whether the parent-child bond is so ingrained in the mind that it's difficult or impossible to completely erase.While most parents seem to forget, our hero's memory isn't completely rewritten. She still remembers her son, and of course doesn't understand why no one else does.An interesting part of the whole re-write process is that it seems to work not-unlike a hard disk: pointers to the data/memories are erased, so while the data/memories are still there on the drive/mind, you've effectively deleted/forgotten them because you have no access. If you can successfully rebuild the pointers then the data/memories will come flooding back.In this case the mother-child bond of our hero is simply too deeply/widely/whatever ingrained, and no amount of messing with her head seems to erase all the pointers. Part of the reason may be that she works very hard to reinforce the memories, constantly repeating his name, reviewing things they did together, etc. She later manages to help another man "restore his pointers" and he remembers his daughter. Together they try to figure out what the hell is going on. Adventure ensues.[/spoiler]In a nutshell, anyway.</blockquote>

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