Machines Like Me

Synopsis

**number one sunday times bestseller**charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When charlie comes into money, he buys adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With miranda’s assistance, he co-designs adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – and soon a love triangle forms, which leads charlie, miranda and adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives?