Psychotropia is a trippy trek through a near future in which AI, deep fakes, holograms and slapstick news challenge humanity to distinguish between reality and fantasy. Liam Kohl learns just how challenging when he grapples with Maestro, the messianic cult leader who stole his psychic wife’s ashes; Maestro believes that a cocktail of psilocybin and human cremains produces elite humans. The two clash in a climactic showdown in the midst of a battle between cult followers and militias.