Detective Pankrac returns for a second case, drawn to the unusual city of Marsias—a place made prosperous by its cutting-edge DNA cloning technology. The city's elite have been using the technology to create doubles of famous people and artists to carry out illicit business on their behalf, and Marsias is buzzing with these duplicates. Pankrac arrives just as the city prepares to crown its newest Cloned Miss of Beauty, right as the strange goings-on begin turning genuinely dangerous.