Advertising drones buzz overhead, billboards dazzle with neon, and people still have no one to share the silence with: Miya scrolls through catalogs and selects men, while Theo drowns out emptiness with endless TV shows.
Their identical, faded days run side by side, not crossing—until a mysterious phone call intervenes in their familiar order, and an unexpected meeting under extremely strange circumstances changes everything.
This is a story about whether it’s possible to keep a human being inside yourself where happiness is displayed for sale in a department store, and true feeling proves more dangerous than any advertising drone.
The future city gleams with glass and cold steel, shimmering with screens and signs. Over the blocks, ever-present advertising drones circle, reminding you that here you can buy almost anything. Miya works as a sales clerk at the Department Store of Happiness and lives by a schedule, only sometimes indulging in electronic dates or ordering an “ideal” man from a catalog. Theo is a low-level clerk who endures a job he doesn’t like day after day, and every evening returns to an empty apartment—where a sagging sofa and an endless stream of TV shows await him. Their everyday lives stretch in parallel lines until, one day, a mysterious phone call rings. And soon fate brings Miya and Theo together in circumstances so unusual that their familiar world begins to crack apart.