Dorian lands on Earth after a journey through space.
He doesn’t remember exactly how long he has been away, but it feels as if not much time has passed — perhaps a year. He recalls leaving on a mission to seek solutions to the environmental disaster unfolding on the planet, which is making life on Earth increasingly difficult. But these memories are blurry… Are they really his? Was he truly on a mission? Who is he, really?
He lands together with Ai, the artificial intelligence that travelled with him, and which helps him understand what is happening to him — and above all, what has happened to the planet, now inhospitable and, it seems, uninhabited. But suddenly he encounters Corpo, apparently the only human being who survived the catastrophe — a being who has regressed to a primordial, pre-historic state…
Corpo does not speak. He communicates, yes — but only through the language of the body, through dance, a language almost unintelligible to Dorian, who is used to interacting only with Ai. Perhaps he has been away far longer than he thinks… or perhaps he has only just been “born,” and has never before seen a real human being in flesh and blood. It is Ai, through a dialogue of questions and answers, who explains to Dorian what it means to be “human,” what those expressions, reactions, and physical impulses of the creature before him signify — a creature he struggles to recognize as similar to himself.
Through direct experience — through being in the presence of Corpo — Dorian will finally discover the truth about his own nature:
that he is, in fact, an artificial being.
