Audrey is 16 years old. She reads real paper books, listens to music and dreams of studying philosophy in order to remain a person in a world that has changed beyond recognition.

Fuel wars of the 2040s, drought in Europe in the 2060s. the disaster with genetically modified wheat, Google riots, magnetic tracks, immersion capsules, and robots, robots, robots - this is now everyday reality.

And also Echo - amazing creatures that arose at the peak of technology. They have an ideal appearance, consist of flesh and blood, and differ from people only by a tiny microcircuit implanted in the brain. They are designed to obey and serve without question.

Daniel is 16 weeks old. He is Echo. But it differs from its artificial counterparts. He feels pain and anger, knows how to love and knows that he was not created to be a thing.