A series of interconnected stories, starring creatures of the natural world, reveal the art of imitation. As a group of butterflies begins its journey north, an orchid seduces a bee returning to the hive’s inauguration celebration, only for the festivities to be interrupted by an unexpected attack. Meanwhile, ants cultivate an ancient fungus using fragments of leaves—a practice that, millions of years later, will be imitated by humans and transformed into the foundation of a city. Within this artificial environment, a boy pursued by agents determined to erase all evidence of the world’s natural origins must find a way to escape. In a reality that constantly replicates nature, his flight becomes a struggle to preserve its very existence.