Miraculously spared during the kidnapping and massacre of 43 men from Iguala on the night of September 26, 2014, young Álvaro, who has nothing left to lose, flees Mexico in a race against fate, only to wind up in the clutches of an adept of transhumanism, a wonder boy from Silicon Valley. A sprawling exploration of the networks that irrigate and reformulate modern life, The Invention of Bodies subtly echoes reality in order to better force us to look it in the face.