Taking the form of an intelligence dossier, the app tells the official story of how the Earth Mission of an intergalactic anthropologist was revealed to be a ruse. Forming a layered metaphor, the story explores ways of being/ feeling alien, mirroring systemic oppressions of a current geopolitical zeitgeist. Users swipe left and right through auto-ethnographic field notes, audio surveillance, intelligence memos, media reports, digital poetry and psychiatric assessments. Using audio as a dominant thread, the narrative becomes a meditation on being voiceless in our media saturated society.

The app is intended to resonate with a user base who feels disillusioned with the establishment in all its forms. They feel an urgency around issues of climate change, gender equity and diversity when faced with a world that is beyond transparently lacking in equilibrium in all these areas. As the manuscript has been assessed as accessible at a 16-18 year old reading level, however, the core audience will likely hover around early twenty-something young women.

As a layered metaphor, the story explores various definitions of being and feeling alien — mirroring systemic oppressions of a recent geopolitical zeitgeist. The two characters have contrasting vantage points on the issue (one of a intergalactic foreigner, one of a terrorist in exile), each confronting their own inherited legacy of systemic oppressions. 

The protagonist was envisioned as a hybrid South Asian-Western demeanour, with origins of an obscure minority group with a little known history. Despite being the central figure of the dossier, her voice is conveyed through the lens of others, contrasting viewpoints on her as a subject to analyze, not an individual to understand — an existence many visible minorities can relate to.

The story world highlights post-indenture land ownership in the former British colonies (specifically Trinidad) where, similar to former slaves, indentured workers could earn a wage and own land. However, as non-Christian marriages were not legally recognized, lands were commonly repossessed upon death (rather than passed on to spouse or child) until as late as post-WWII, depending on the religion. Every generation uprooted, having to begin again, limited the progress of these communities for well over a century post-emancipation.