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In a dystopian future where fossil fuels were exhausted, ruling corporations had turned to desperate measures to generate energy. Books were banned and confiscated as fuel for the fire, and with them free thinking had been lost. Human beings had morphed into illiterate cockroaches. In New York City an underground group of exiled scientists, writers and artists were the last bastion of those who remembered the books. The group risked their lives to seek the books, and save them from being destroyed. They are known as The Inksect. This is the story of how one of their own, Pikes, on a book quest is led to an even more important discovery: paper, pen and literacy.

It tells the story of Marcos, a young man who, after being left by his girlfriend, discovers his very true self by confronting his darkest and deepest thoughts represented by an evil, yet familiar, mythological creature: his "Shadow". In the realm of this depressive moment, Marcos stares at his reflection on a mirror and steps into the "Mandorla", a moment in which the tension of opposites is long enough for something new to emerge. His reflection detaches from him and starts to behave differently creating an uncanny moment in which his reflection morphs into his "Shadow". This evil creature takes Marcos into a world greater than the sum of its parts, opening windows of infinite possibilities, discovery and creativity: his unconscious.