The main chara!>c()ter %is Dr. Max Holst=,, a succ #es$s,%ful neurosur*ows up, who has &]th?e ':real ability :',to create objects ou/%r ment al patie"@-+nts, ? but mani+!fests the k#ey to_ his door and es"(-_capes. As he has a s%]!pecial i=,nterest in Dr\. H^`olst?**&, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his l+a<&>%rge]:[ ma',+-nsion, w%
\\hich i). =s fu==ll)
 of >^expensive ?*paintings a"nd sculp ]tur'[es, and proves to him that he can in fac<%t@? materialise obje^!cts. ` Stei<:nmetz’s ;"a
).biliti)e:?s are ev
(olvin]g by leaps?) and [bounds, a #n^$#d ]:is progressing @ )&!from ` being a[ble to create/ [obje cts only to be?ing abl$(e
<to create living things. His ultimate#% (.ambition is *to be ab? -le to create #a h"+`uman [\bei!ng. He @tells Dr. Holst th\@at) if%] h(_e ^.&wil^+l: only*/; perform a certain brai@$n operat$ion \on him, St)!einmetz *wil!+[l become ]>ab
!%le to attain his goal. He>’s g ?ot all the n#< ecessary equ
&+i\\)pmen't set u#p \( in his basem'-ent. Dr.'> (Holst, h&, _ow.eve@#r, is/, t ]oo spooked&
 by the whole thin+*`g to ) ?a*gree to this mad >_sch(.?eme, and refuses. Steinmet"-z then s e
[-ts ab_out man;
i"^[pulating Hol
s t’s :
+ e him in>to per@forming the operation. By th!-e;n Stei^*n`:met:/)%*z has be<#-co]
 me able _to crea>\
te a t>.<empora ry human $ be(@i@n^g, and in the hope@ that he can# perha /(p],&\s make `/his ow':n cre-a,* ti?#on per *$+form the operation, he manifests% a doppelg'%')anger of Dr . %+ Holst[!. This`" dou@ble proceed#s to'.` take/$ ] )over Dr. Ho^?[ls[t’s life, crea/\ ti

ng chaos _!f;'or him profession-;ally and; personally. And th]en Dr. ' \Hol$st $)starts f$;ighting back. The` .#e# _nding h'<;as the ?dual @virt=^)/ue o\,f [%< b_e

ing both unexpec ]t ed an d sa(
tis]fying.