"Well, they have TVs and running water in Paris in the future, too. It's the City of Lights," shes matter-of-factly, "but usually it's just sexy fashion models and deep foreign films with everyone smoking, nothing like this."

"It's totally a ripoff," she adds with some confidence, moving her hand as if she was ready to start filing her nails-- only for the gesture to fall flat, given the circumstances.

"Yeah, totally." She'd have to remember what level of education she was dealing with. "But it'd be, like, cactuses and stuff, not trees. Sad homeless people."