As Cate’s complicated past emerges, they are forced to confront the true nature of their relationship, and decide how they can best meet the inevitable future laid out before them. From Sydney’s Northern Beaches, to the lush, dark forests of Malaysia, to the old world elegance of Melbourne’s Brighton Beach, they search for a past they can share, a love they can trust, and a new way of living that will hold them together to the end. 

In Living Memory is a story which examines the question of how much of who we are is determined by our memory. If we have to remember who we love, do we really love them? If we have to remember what we believe, is it really our belief? If we have to remember what we’ve said before, is anything we say what we really think? If our interaction with the universe around us is continually mediated by the past, how and why should we think of ourselves as authentic beings? The story also explores the disorienting experience of an evolving sense of self, and the liberating experience of forgetting.

In Living Memory is a love story, a detective story, a chronicle of family and friendship, and a meditation on the precarious and impermanent nature of the psychological self.