Jamie is a boy with strict interests and ideals. There is no room for the impossible or whimsy in his mind. However, that does not stop a scientist from devising a way to "resurrect" his dead daughter as a robotic being and life from weaving a web of confusing problems for both human and machine. Jamie, being forced to accept Alice the Robot into his drab life, sets about the task of concealing her from a government of war-hungry, corrupt slaves to fear. (Pending story: Third in line after M is for Melody and Courtyard of Shattered Glass. After those two stories are done, this will continue.)