Tel Aviv, Isreal 2190- The conflict in the middle east has not changed...But the weapons used to fight it have. Mossad agent Iluatha Assad is on the front line of this battle. Trained as Assassin for the Isreali Intelligence Agency, she finds herself assigned to a search and rescue" mission which quickly goes awry. As she fights to keep terrorists at bay with her Harlequin model Automaton , however, Iluatha must also face the struggle with herself. In the government's effort to create a more effective and protected soldier, have they also succeeded in stripping away her humanity? In a world that is more machine than man, is it worth even being human?