在这部人造之子片中,故事的起始是一位名叫吉姆的男子来到一家生物技术公司,要求利用亡妻的卵子来合成亲生骨肉。不过这仅仅是个开始,从片中我们可以看出故事的背景延续到了未来世界,并朝着前所未有的危机层面发展,而那个被捆在手术台上的少年也可能是吉姆未来长大的人造之子。而影片的副标题也确实很值得玩味--世界新秩序的诞生,莫非吉姆的儿子与未来人类命运的走向有关吗?看来这一切也只能等到影片上映后才能得知。
Being steadily crushed under the weight of debt, unemployment, and increasing isolation, Jim reaches a breaking point. Over a game of solitary Russian roulette he contemplates an unspeakable act of violence as a way of leaving his mark. He is stopped short by a vision of his deceased wife who convinces him that he should instead focus his remaining resources into an act of creation. Armed with his wife's frozen eggs and a new resolve, Jim secures the services of a large biotech firm to help him create an heir who will be engineered to overcome the obstacles of common men. Meanwhile in the distant future Niskaa, the leader of a group of genetically modified beings, controls a race of worker clones in a super-industrialized, post-human Earth. As he tries to restore his decrepit empire he comes face to face with a young clone that shows an unprecedented capacity for reason and empathy. Somehow connected to Jim via dreams, the clone manifests secrets of Nature that Niskaa has not ...