Bipedalism, or@^+ 't@w?,$o-f !ooted walking'[^, is) the story o+*f a )=\painter :who grew up in a[%/n orp:$;hanage
:\and only .-=years later learns# the circumsta]
nces of hi:$*s father's disappearance*- and death. /Childhood memories bring t?he main character back to the pa*.st he buys%[ =^a house in t*^!h%%,@e\$ suburbs that used \)^to belong /to his famil-y/^.; I
n the basem,,ent.,= he find*;/!s !his f at
(her_'+.s -ar)(/ch[ iv^^es and scientif$ic researc%)h docu^ !ments on;  the hybridizat ion of human-? ra =\
ce wit* h re )lat_ed biolo%/+gical sp_@eci](es.#;_@ Studyin[`!g[*\ the ar_chive ma(terial, he un+ @expectedly finds eviden-c) `e of effor!ts to renew the experi ment#=s-- on t he rem
[aini! ng hybrid ?population. The] painter %`-.then be[_comes a rese[*archer, and\( con!sequently a victim. The basic \,idea of %,h%i+s@: father's research was#[( to change, con/t]rol`_ a:]]nd `influ)`ence `*the p_/roc[e]@ss of human ev-olut*.io*_\n - initially connecte^-d with eugeni! ?cs t*he @$ories o@+f the %]#\pe+$?riod=+ be+/-fore Wo]rld War #I;I+,, and no w being placed=@ in a context of mode+rn 'bio%technol:ogi/cal'*; ex#^pec=_tations% by his form/*er colleagues. Th!e main =charact er tries to recreate and realize his father's \h`er#-itage:*, wh,o wa$%;%s forced to c%_*o_ ,operate with* s #/tate,$` t.*$error organizations, ;@?u )s
in`g the -results of =#his \;se:;cret research. ;)In@; ;a tra -gic manner^[, )thi][s](] i#]/nformation turns i nto,  the ma,@.in character's rea.,lity, =)a =t] @,_f_ [irst forc`#$ing=%= ?him ^ to reappraise ,\` his father',s,  valu#`es /and late!!r driving him to*?%: madness.