In Johnna Adams’ World Builders, Whitney and Max live deep within their own imagined realities — one expansive and fanciful, the other dark and brutal. To break free of these visions and become functional members of society, they embark upon a clinical drug trial that might erase these worlds forever. But are they truly able to leave their fantasies behind? In a medicated age in which our imaginations are colonized by mass media, how do we know when happiness and love are real?