Kerry Thornley starts believing he was part of CIA’s MKUltra brainwashing experiments to erase his memories to frame Lee Harvey Oswald. Soon, Kerry falls down the conspiracy rabbit hole and alienates his friends with the exception of Robert Anton Wilson. Together they begin a disinformation campaign blaming everything on the Illuminati, and inadvertently influence the formation of QAnon.

New Orleans’ district attorney Jim Garrison emerged as a white knight from the dark forest of conspiracies to prosecute a charming gay businessman, Clay Shaw, for the assassination of the President. He believed there were too many coincidences in his city between the CIA, disgruntled Cubans, and Lee Harvey Oswald. He also felt that Kerry Thornley was involved in a plot to set up Oswald as a patsy.

One of the conspiracy theories floating around is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a double agent working for the Soviets. A "Manchurian Candidate" programmed to be an unwitting assassin in an international plot hatched by who else – his mother. Meanwhile, Kerry Thornley moves to New Orleans to write his novel about his buddy, Oswald – and meets two shady characters who want to assassinate President Kennedy and frame a communist. Soon, Lee Harvey Oswald returns to the USA from the Soviet Union, and the plot begins with Kerry in the middle of it.