
April 30, 1983 · 43 years old

A university researcher is fired because of budget cuts. To earn a living, he decides to produce drugs and recruits his former colleagues, who are living at the margins of society despite their skills.

Clarissa accepts a residency at the Ludovico Institute to work on her next novel with the assistance of Dalloway, an artificial intelligence system. As the novel progresses, Dalloway becomes worryingly overzealous.