A Map of Borrowed Faces

When seventeen-year-old transit-sign painter Nia sees her missing mother's face on a campaign poster, she knows the image was not borrowed by accident. In a near-future Toronto where every commute depends on a facial overlay, the campaign is using Mara's profile to sell stricter enforcement. Nia follows the trail to Harbor, a hidden archive batch of identities bought, reassigned, and locked behind civic paperwork. With a crew of teen route runners, overlay artists, and a reluctant compliance insider, she plans a break-in before election night seals the records for good. But every access point comes with a harder question: who has the right to open a life that has been turned into data? As transit gates close and the city tightens around them, Nia must choose between a private answer about her mother and a riskier way to return choice to everyone trapped in the archive. A fast, intimate YA heist about found family, consent, and the right to decide how you are seen.