Meanwhile a slaughterhouse worker is declared obsolete, replaced by machines, and becomes a bearded recluse. As he sits in his crumbling manor awaiting the cancer to take him-he too receives an unusual invitation to the strange island where either his salvation or damnation await. Things aren't going well for Sophia either. She faces the hostile takeover of her life's work-her company-all while striving to keep the identity of her eight-year-old daughter a secret. They all meet on an isle where murder-machines and transgenic creatures run amok in a gothic odyssey where technology has been unleashed.