 In the game, Alice is a tortured young woman, who at a young age was orphaned when her parents and her sister were burned alive in an accidental fire caused by her cat Dinah.Afterward, she falls into a catatonic state, and is condemned to Rutledge's Asylum for treatment.There she remains for many years, faced with her own survivor's guilt and the mistreatment of patients in the mental hospitals of the time.