In the twenty-third century, genetic engineering organises society and fixes the balance between men and women. Trained pilot Mika is summoned to a mysterious space mission. Among the people she encounters is Hiroto, a man she holds responsible for her friend’s death.
Selection by genetic suitability presents the crew as an efficient arrangement of useful abilities. Mika arrives with a personal history that such a system cannot make irrelevant. The space assignment places institutional confidence in control beside grief, suspicion and the practical need to cooperate.
The uniforms and orderly interior give the mission a controlled appearance. Yet a shared room cannot erase what its occupants know or believe about one another. Mika’s grievance makes cooperation a question of judgement, rather than a simple consequence of having assembled people with the desired genetic qualifications.
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