Amanda Sage was a dissident whose beliefs and ideas retain the power to disturb a long established mode of living A restless public is reawakening long after her death fueled by the recordings of her antigovernment speeches Jeremys new job entails rewriting her words and her visual image nullifying and softening the impact of her heartfelt rhetoric While working to comprehend her lectures to effectively alter them he chooses a taboo course of action he dumps her stored memory into an android body made in her likeness This brings him dangerously close to her and her message