Only archaic wild people remain after the climate catastrophe has wiped out humanity. The Neo-Man has also survived - cloned and immortal. Daniel24 is a Neo-Man of the twenty-fourth generation, looking back at his genetic prototype, Daniel1. This Daniel1 was a person from our present: he was a comedian and a cynically sharp observer of a society that had long since broken all taboos. But his life with the beautiful Isabelle was not enough for him. In 'The Possibility of an Island,' Michel Houellebecq frees himself from the present and presents a radical vision of a future in which humanity has extinguished itself.