In a near future, an experimental therapy makes it possible to cure cancer: human body cells are completely replaced by nanites—robot cells that grant immortality to the afflicted. When literary scholar Yonghun—one of the first test subjects—mysteriously disappears, it raises questions, especially for Dr. Beeko, who oversees the project involving Patient 1. What happened to Yonghun? Is it really him who has returned? And what does his disappearance have to do with the AI he created, which he taught to understand poetry and named after his partner Panit, meaning beloved? Award-winning translator Anton Hur explores in his spectacular debut "Toward Eternity" what happens when technology surpasses biology, what Emily Dickinson has to do with our humanity, and how love itself survives the end of humanity.