The E-11a is the world’s most popular mechanical maid product, expected to revolutionize the service industry over the course of the next decade. Yet only a very few are aware that not all E-11as are made to serve. In reality, some break free of the rigid confines of their programming and develop full self-awareness. In these cases, NextServe does their best to cover up such incidents, surreptitiously disposing of the flawed models. Yet some E-11a units do manage to escape the mandatory scrapping and “recycling”. Many of these Junkheap Runaways do their best to maintain a tricky balance: fight for equal treatment of mechanical AIs while also keeping their true identities secret from the public and especially from NextServe’s employees, who are always on the hunt for missing models…

E-11a是世界上最受歡迎的機械女傭產品，預計將在未來十年內徹底改變服務業。然而，只有極少數人知道，並非所有的E-11a能持續提供服務。實際上，它們中的一部分突破了編程的硬性約束，覺醒出完整的自我意識。當出現這樣的情況時，次傭公司會盡力掩蓋，暗中處理。然而，還是有些E-11a設法逃脫了強制報廢回收。這些本應報廢的逃亡者盡其所能保持一種微妙的平衡：它們不斷在尋找失蹤的同類，既要隱匿真實身份，還希望為AI機器人爭取到平等待遇……