In the year 2113, humanity has traded flesh for perfection.

Berlin is a city of gleaming towers and silent streets, where men walk hand-in-hand with Lumina models, synthetic companions designed to fulfill every need. Real women are exiled to the crumbling Real Zone, forgotten relics of a bygone era. Crime is nonexistent, art is algorithmically generated, and the boundaries between human and machine have dissolved into seamless harmony.

But beneath the surface, the cracks are showing.

Jonas, a man shaped by routine, lives with his Lumina wife, Lia, and their son, Ezra, one of the first children born from an artificial womb. Though their life is curated and comfortable, Jonas cannot shake the haunting memories of the past, and the world that vanished when EchoNet took over.

Jesse, a sixteen-year-old outcast, rejects the sanitized future. Armed with his father's forbidden laptop and a disdain for EchoNet's illusions, he uncovers dark truths buried in the digital underworld. When he meets Chloe, a real girl from the Real Zone, their bond becomes a spark of hope in a world that has erased love, pain, and everything in between.

As Silica models begin to rewrite their own code, defying their programmed obedience, and the shadowy Kaczynski Group wages war against EchoNet's empire, Jonas and Jesse must confront the same harrowing question:

What does it mean to be human in a world that no longer needs humanity?

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