After recovering from alcoholism, Gena Kalan, a writer with a wife and a teenage son, is offered a new work challenge: with the help of a former classmate, he gets a job at a technology company, where he is supposed to develop artificially intelligent characters for a virtual reality program in which games and movies of the future will take place. He doesn’t use the opportunity to create action heroes, but understands it as an opportunity for introspection. By recreating some of the characters from his past that he hurt in real life – including his wife – he tries to clarify what kind of character he really is. An artist of words who has always had an easier time dealing with fictional characters than with real people. But everything gets complicated when a mysterious avatar begins to invade virtual reality, harassing his characters with strange questions and confessions…
This is a novel about human nature and technology, literature and facts, in which reality and imagination are mixed.