Wallfacer

Wallfacer is a title that draws on an old image from Eastern tradition: a figure who turns to face a wall in silent contemplation. It has no place in the China of the Cultural Revolution, where the young astrophysicist Ye Wenjie watches her father persecuted, nor in the present in which scientists are dying mysteriously and the nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao is drawn into a virtual reality game called Three Body. The Wallfacers come later, and the title, its holders, and the project behind it all belong to that later time.