Two newly created human beings awaken alone in a deserted modern city after humanity's extinction and first find comfort in mutual presence before noticing the artificial world around them. They wander streets and buildings, puzzled by signs, rigid architecture, and abandoned goods, and respond instinctively—one drawn to a sprout of grass and the other to the sky—while they experiment with clothing in an empty shop. Encounters such as a church clock that still measures hours lead them to reflect on the contrast between nature and human artifice and on imagination as a way to perceive and loosen civilization's constraining conventions.