The Manual
A philosophically dense, melancholic meditation on isolation, faith, and what it means to be human when raised by an artificial caretaker in a dead world.
In a dystopian future, the last human is raised by a machine. He struggles with the loneliness of no human interaction and questions the teachings of a mysterious religious 'Manual' which the machine claims is holy.
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