Taking place in the future, the Mendelia habitat is scientifically advanced. Scientists figured out how to read into human DNA, allowing for the possibility to know exactly how everyone's life will turn out based on their genes. This talent has been relegated to the respected "soothsayers", who read the DNA of every infant at birth and then again on their 18th birthday. After well-known soothsayer is murdered, a pair of detectives investigate the incident. The search leads them to the soothsayers nephew, who appears to be an unlikely suspect. However, the insight of the detectives reveals that the nephew is actually a scientific clone of his infertile father. This fact enraged the nephew, leading him to murder his uncle who was supposed to be an all knowing truth seeker but did not tell him the status of his clone DNA.