Storyline: Set in 2041, Alex Garel is a well-known robot programmer who after 10 years returns to his home town to work in his old university when his friend Julia brings job like programmer in a project to create a new line of robot child. There Alex meets his brother David, Lana (Alex's former love and actual David's wife), and Eva, Alex's 10-years-old niece. Looking for inspiration Alex asks help Eva to be the muse of the new robot, watching her attitude and behavior the time they are together, making emotional tests to configure its personality. The relation with his niece creates doubts in Alex about to finish the project and wake up old feelings about Lana, at the same time that he starts to suspect that perhaps the lovely and imaginative Eva hidden an important secret about Lana and himself.

In post-war London Viv Pearce, seeing married spiv Reggie, runs a dating bureau with Helen Giniver, who lives with her older lover, authoress Julia Standing. Viv s younger brother Duncan, a tormented homosexual, has been in prison and is sought out by his - straight - ex-cellmate Robert Fraser, who served time as a conscientious objector and is now concerned for the boy s welfare. Viv encounters Kay Langrish, a wealthy, reclusive butch lesbian and for both women this evokes memories of 1944 when Kay was an heroic ambulance driver and Helen was Kay s girlfriend, before Kay introduced her to her ex-lover Julia. Viv had an illegal abortion, funded by Reggie, and, after she needed hospital treatment, Kay saved her from prosecution by claiming she was a married woman who had miscarried. Three years earlier Kay and Julia are still an item and Viv meets unhappily married soldier Reggie on a train...

The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin. Now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone! It s a big double-decker plane, so very concerned mother has a lot of territory to cover in order to find her daughter. But as Kyle fights to discern the truth, she takes matters into her own hands.

Set in 2041, Alex Garel is a well-known robot programmer who after 10 years returns to his home town to work in his old university when his friend Julia brings job like programmer in a project to create a new line of robot child. There Alex meets his brother David, Lana (Alex s former love and actual David s wife), and Eva, Alex s 10-years-old niece. Looking for inspiration Alex asks help Eva to be the muse of the new robot, watching her attitude and behavior the time they are together, making emotional tests to configure its personality. The relation with his niece creates doubts in Alex about to finish the project and wake up old feelings about Lana, at the same time that he starts to suspect that perhaps the lovely and imaginative Eva hidden an important secret about Lana and himself.