What happens when a human mind is transferred into a machine? In a world where humanity has had to regroup in order to survive in the wake of an environmental catastrophe, it is possible to buy immortality by transplanting a human consciousness into an information system. Laura Verns decides that, once dead, she would like to have such a "continuing life" for an indefinite time period. However, twenty years after her physical death, something threatens her virtual life and she has to search within her own memories to find out what it is. Teresa Colom creates a future world that is extraordinarily convincing and the voyage of discovery that Laura Verns finds herself on the brink of questions the very nature of humanity and what we call life.