Kiln People

In a future Los Angeles, life is cheap thanks to 'dittos' – disposable, duplicate bodies that allow their 'originals' to pursue every legal and illicit whim. Investigator Albert Morris, no stranger to sending his own dittos into peril, takes on a seemingly straightforward case: busting a ring of bootleggers creating illegal copies of a famous actress. However, this investigation quickly unravels into a far deeper conspiracy when Morris stumbles upon the sudden disappearance of Dr. Yosil Maharal, a brilliant AI researcher on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. Maharal's daughter, Ritu, believes her father was kidnapped, or worse, and a reclusive, immensely wealthy 'trillionaire' named Aeneas Polom, who only ever appears via his high-end platinum dittos, offers Morris unlimited resources to find Maharal before his world-changing discovery falls into the wrong hands. Morris must navigate a shadowy world where the line between original and copy, life and death, and even memory itself, becomes increasingly blurred, forcing him to confront profound questions of identity and existence.