How do you prove you exist when even the people you love no longer recognize you?

For Nova Quinn, it begins with a student ID that refuses to scan. Soon, her name disappears from school records, her photographs vanish, and her best friend looks at her like a stranger. Even home offers no certainty. The life Nova remembers is being dismantled around her.

Then she meets Kian, a student hacker whose own identity has been partly erased. Together, they uncover a hidden program that monitors teenagers, labels their emotional differences as threats, and targets those who refuse to conform. As the interference reaches into Nova’s memories, finding answers becomes a fight to hold on to herself.

Daisha Janjani’s 404: Identity Not Found is a science-fiction thriller about surveillance, stolen identity, and the courage to challenge people who mistake control for care. Alongside its suspense lies a deeply personal struggle to reclaim damaged relationships and defend the right to be imperfect, complicated, and fully human.

Nova’s existence may be missing from the records. She is determined to make herself impossible to ignore.