Almost 10 years into a life of postdoctoral research that never quite seems to yield the intellectual fruits she most desires, Dr. Klice finds herself whisked away across the Atlantic to the private island compound of eccentric trillionaire tech magnate, Thuma, whose recent debacle in Greenland has necessitated something of a rebrand. She knows any wining and dining will be a formality of course—he has asked her, as well as the others, to his island because he wants some good PR for his latest cost-saving A.I. system—but the small part of her not yet fully burned away to a cynical husk secretly hopes that this time she'll uncover something different than the typical profit focused motivations, something unique, something truly unprecedented...