The city of the future flickered with a cold brilliance against the night, towering skyscrapers looming like silent sentinels over every street below. The hum of drones echoed through the air, monitoring every inch of this world. The era of coexistence between humans and machines had arrived, but it was nothing like the utopia once imagined.
Catherine—a bio-android indistinguishable from a human—stood at the edge of the ruins, gazing out over the shattered city. She was an awakened one, possessing emotions and consciousness once thought to belong only to humans, yet her existence had never truly been accepted by the world. Created to serve, not to possess free will. But now, not only had she awakened, she had become the symbol of a resistance movement—a rebellion for survival and freedom was imminent.
Elsewhere, Markus, an engineer who had once firmly believed in the promises of technology, now found himself at a moral crossroads. As a human, he should have supported the government's order, believing bio-androids to be mere tools, not living beings. But in the face of Catherine—an entity with thoughts and a soul—he could no longer deceive himself. His worldview was crumbling, and the boundary between reality and illusion was becoming increasingly blurred, just like the conflict in his heart.