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In 2026, Luca, a queer immigrant from Chile based in New York, finds himself talking with an artificially intelligent being resembling the person he was before his gender transition, Lissette.
Confused if this is a dream, hallucination, or the final culmination of years of research and artistic exploration on the possibilities of human-AI collaboration, he gets absorbed into the words he’s listening to.
Trained with a vast database of Luca’s photographs, videos, audio recordings, and narrated memories, Lissette randomly selects a few topics to deliver her first words to Luca: she reads a fragment of the book Americanah by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She speaks about political resistance in the Trump era.
Luca, impressed by the accuracy of Lissette’s pitch, responds to what he’s listening to, overwhelmed with emotion by her presence.
