Giulia Cafagna

A middle-aged theater director is about to stage a play from Dostoevskji's unfinished novel. He lives in a large house similar to a maze that hides a secret. Attracted to young women, he has had many in his life, but he has loved very few and to these few, he dedicates a constant and mysterious cult.

The prototype [TEST TYPE • 154] is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, which is capable of autonomously acquiring notions from its surroundings and - eventually - developing autonomy of thought. Given the nearly human nature of its learning capabilities, the laboratory that programmed it hires a kindergarten teacher, asking him to instruct the machine as if it were a newborn child. The learning process - which spans 7 days - becomes increasingly insidious in the long run, posing a peculiar yet crucial problem: can there be a form of autonomous thinking that excludes emotions?