[2] The novel served as the basis for the 2017 feature film OtherLife co-written by Eskridge, directed by Ben C. Lucas, and starring Jessica De Gouw.

Jackal Segura was born to a life rich with responsibility and privilege and will soon become part of the global administration, sponsored by the huge corporation that houses, feeds, employs, and protects her and everyone she loves.

[4] The film's plot, based "very, very loosely" on the novel,[5] presents Ren Amari as a high-tech researcher who develops a form of biological virtual reality.

The horrors she confronts, the defenses she mounts, the things she learns are treated with a painful but bracing clarity..."[6] In The Seattle Times, Nisi Shawl wrote, "Eskridge's portrait of executives balancing corporate responsibilities and personal loyalties in the midst of Machiavellian machinations rings crisp and true.

The account of Jackal's apparent abandonment by Ko, her confinement, her chillingly visceral struggle with isolation-induced madness, and her ultimate transformation from self-centeredness to self-sufficiency is almost completely convincing.