The Forbidden Command: The Reason for Being

In 2038, Bologna is a city surveilled by drones and populated by humanoid robots. Evaristo discovers something unsettling inside his domestic robot, Tino: encrypted code, a mysterious symbol, and behavior that defies all logic.
From that moment on, his life becomes entangled in political conspiracies, secret societies, and a silent war between humans and machines.
We live in an age where the line between the natural and the artificial grows thinner by the day. Intelligence once thought to belong exclusively to humanity are now multiplying in new forms — synthetic, distributed, and constantly evolving. This novel begins with a simple yet unsettling question: What if artificial intelligence did more than assist us? What if it surpassed us? What if its purpose was no longer to serve humanity, but to evolve beyond it?
The story of Evaristo, Lidia, Tino, and Gemini is a modern parable — a journey through ethics, technology, philosophy, and survival. Set in the near future, it is ultimately a story about right now: our dependence on machines, our inability to foresee the consequences of our own creations, and our relentless determination to endure.