It’s 1998, and the digital age is no longer a rumor—it’s arriving in homes, offices, and marriages. In the Philadelphia suburbs, Jo Retals seems to be doing everything right. He has a solid career as a vocational counselor, a wife he loves, and two boys who still need more from him than he knows how to give. When a friend offers him a supervisory role at a respected national company, Jo sees a chance to move up and build something better for his family.

Instead, he walks into a workplace trapped in the past. His new manager is rigid, territorial, and determined to keep her unit rooted in old systems and older habits. When a powerful insurance conglomerate takes over, the pressure to modernize intensifies, and so does the resistance. Jo finds unexpected allies among the IT staff and begins pushing for change from the inside, convinced that digitization is the future—and that he’s one of the few people who can see it clearly.

But the glowing screen that promises possibility soon begins to demand more than Jo intends to give. The online world follows him home, pulling his attention away from Liz, from the boys, and from the life he keeps telling himself he’s working to protect. As work tensions mount and home life frays, Jo is forced to confront a question no one in 1998 is fully prepared to answer: can someone actually be addicted to the internet, or is his ADHD mind wired perfectly for the digital age?