The Novices of Lerna

When unambitious scholar Ramoon Beltra receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland, he reluctantly complies with the unusual qualifying paperwork requiring several pages of detailed measurements and photographs of his entire body. Beltra soon finds himself in the deserted university town of Lerna, together with 23 other 'novices' subject to the same undisclosed project - all of them doppelgangers of Beltra himself.