Chapitre 1

It is 2071, and Yélif works at a hospital where social relationships are controlled, a world dominated by Big Pharma and insurance companies. Yélif is different, he asks a lot of questions and strongly feels the need for social connections, which is not the case for his colleagues who are used to frequenting Love Houses provided for them. Through blood tests, Yélif finally understands what makes him different from his colleagues. During a shift, under special circumstances, he meets an old doctor, Dr. Ali, who is no longer practicing, but whose sharpness of mind and cynicism intrigue Yélif. The two doctors form a friendship and Ali will give his young colleague a journal that he has kept since 1990 and in which he has a pertinent view of the world around him. He understands how doctors were stripped of their free will by a maneuver orchestrated by insurance companies. This journal will also allow him to find the keys to solve a mystery he is facing: intriguing events lead him to discover unusual procedures within this medical world dominated by insurance companies. In his investigation, he discovers that insurance companies use genome analysis to select their members. He will be aided by a young colleague, Azel, who will accompany him throughout his journey and whom he will fall in love with. As part of a medical mission, Yélif takes care of a young athlete, Siwel, whose body has been modified by transhumanist techniques. Yélif discovers the procedures used by pharmaceutical companies to create an improved human, procedures that Yélif firmly denounces. This dialogue between two eras is a kind of fairy tale of the future whose ultimate goal is to enlighten us on the anomalies of the present.