Jake Sullivan cheated death: he copied his consciousness into an artificial body and transferred all his personal rights to it, and he went to live out his sentence at a fashionable resort on the far side of the moon. The new Jake is no longer threatened by sudden death from an incurable malformation in the brain, and indeed there is little threat at all - his new body is very strong, durable and amenable to unlimited modernization. However, the legality of transferring the personality rights of an artificial copy is being challenged in court, and on the Moon events take an unexpected turn...