The River Douro in Porto is the area of Portuguese maritime territory with the highest number of suicides by jumping. Gastão has dedicated his life to recovering these bodies, not to try to save them, but to return them to their families, who can only move on once they have been recovered.

The Synthetic Sincerity Lab based at the University of Southern England are trying to create authentic AI characters as part of a new research project and licence the films of Marc Isaacs' to better understand what his AI characters are lacking.