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What if humanity could start again? Would they take the forbidden fruit on the tree, just out of reach, every time? Or would the plague of the past always haunt us?
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The world has long ended. Earth had been taken by war and refuge, climate change, and greed. The doomsday clock had stopped.
Some of the lucky ones escape to Mars, a barely terraformed planet that they turn into their home.
Thousands of years after the dreaded Warming, two people receive a signal that will change their lives forever. As they continue to learn more about what it truly meant to be human, they feel more and more isolated from the rest of Mars.
One harbours a deadly secret. The other? They might be able to fix everything.
All they have to do is find the apple, hanging just out of their reach.
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