William is a mental health specialist in a world of absolute empathy. It's a perilous job: one slip-up, and an escalating empathy feedback loop could get both him and his patient killed. Every day, William faces the worst consequences of the hyperempathy virus release and loathes the world as it is. 

His life is upended when a new patient shares a way to free oneself from hyperempathy once and for all.

What should he do with this knowledge?