Another Man's City is structured as a virtual-reality narrative
manipulated by an entity referred to variously as the Invisible Hand or
Big Brother. The scenario is reminiscent of Peter Weir's 1998 film The
Truman Show and Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Unconsoled. The novel begins
with a series of seemingly minor juxtapositions of the familiar and the
strange, as a result of which the protagonist, K, gradually finds
himself inside a Matrix-like reality populated with shape-shifting
characters.