The Remedy is the story of siblings with secrets, and insightful and amusing journey of one girl and her quest for social and family equilibrium... Erica Ford, a skittish twentysomething, contaminates beer with drugs in order to reduce aggression, testing her dreams of social engineering on the local population. Ten years after the death of her mother, she struggles to understand the motivations of her siblings, grapples with her own bumbling social ineptitude and the disintegration of her love life. Shocked by a spate of violent burglaries in the area, Erica withdraws and considers a remedy for humanity"s ills, the effects of which could be far reaching.