Simon has come to the house to interview its famous resident, a reclusive artist known simply as Charles. the house is remarkable, its profound beauty born from a combination of high technology and artistic flair. But the house also turns out to be a place of danger, a prison and a laboratory, holding secrets both dark and luminous which will challenge Simon's very notion of who he is and why he exists. Still Life is an intense drama that explores how science is challenging our moral universe and what it is that makes us human.