Memento: Don't Forget Me

Mio, 19, runs the tiny pawnshop she inherited from her grandmother, where people pawn memories instead of watches. Each memory becomes a glowing vial, and Mio remembers every one. Reclaiming a memory always costs something more painful than losing it, and the shop pays for how much the memory hurts to lose. Mio never opens the back room, where dangerous memories are stored. Someone is buying up every memory of the night Mio’s brother died, erasing witnesses one pawn at a time. Ren pawned his own name to save someone and works in the shop to earn it back, while suffering flashes of that night. The Collector is a calm, well-dressed man who buys memories in bulk and never pawns anything.