Mark is a middle-aged man who performs a monotonous job as a ship engineer in The Trawler island. He has a daughter, Edith, who protects from the outside world by inventing stories to lighten the heaviness that surrounds them. He lost his wife in childbirth. Her daughter is affected by Down syndrome and at the age of 14 she is highlighted as an Incubator as one of the very few women still fertile in the world. When the Archduke personally goes to Mark’s house to pick up Edith to take her to the Golden Cage, Mark fails to stop him and sees his daughter dragged away.