It's the year 2089. Alice is a successful executive in a big technology company. She's 38 years old but thanks to genetic therapy she looks much younger. Governments and big companies are run by women now. Most men have turned bland, only interested in immersive, virtual reality online gaming and unable to satisfy women neither emotionally nor sexually. Automata (commonly called "auts") are quite common these days, and many successful woman own one or two to cover their necessities.