Stop whatever you are doing right now. Do not evolve any further, it is absolutely meaningless. Use your eyes, your ears, your hands, your mind. Finally, look, look at each other. Your time is running out, the era is dawning in which you will be unnecessary and expendable.

Loneliness, the disease of our times. Even though we are "connected" in many ways, people seem lonelier than ever, until the state establishes the Ministry of Loneliness: a service with professionals trained to listen to the stories of lonely people.

But when Mr. K. commits suicide, the reputation of the Ministry is shaken. Who is responsible for his death? Certainly not Hope, who, although she looks uncannily like his daughter, is nothing more than an intelligent machine.

A woman trapped in her secret relationship, a scientist who creates the perfect human replica, and a man who loves beauty more than his own child. All are cogs in the same system, facing caregivers, digital listeners, a confession booth, and a whole world that races on, sometimes resembling a distant dystopia and sometimes the world we know so well.