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In the future, all humans are controlled by a sentient A.I. known as The Head. All citizens are required to eat a "jelly bean" daily and on time to feed their implanted nano-bioorganism to stay connected to The Head. Any citizen that refuses to comply are eliminated by The Head.

In a refugee camp at a disused airport, a refugee is killed. The immigration guards report the murder to The Head, who assigns Detective Jan 623 to the case.

Upon arrival at the airport, a woman named Maria is assigned to assist Jan 623 with his investigation. During the investigation, a refugee named Rana comes under Jan's suspicion. Through his interrogation of Rana, Jan learns that an immigration guard is responsible for the murder.

Following this lead, Jan uses The Head to conduct a brain scan of the immigration guard's retinal cortex. Jan eyewitnesses the refugee's murder through his eyes. The Head orders the remaining immigration guards to apprehend him for the murder.

Jan takes a solar-powered autonomous car ride home. After Jan takes a moment to reflect on the case while finishing a micro-cigarette outside, Jan walks into his home to greet his wife Ayka and son Zen. The Head interrupts with the convicted immigration guard's televised apology and begs for absolution, before being executed.

Ayka instructs Zen to disconnect from The Head to avoid seeing the execution. Jan reminds Ayka everyone is only permitted 3 opportunities to disconnect from The Head before being eliminated or must stay connected to The Head at all times.

The next day, Jan returns to the refugee center to re-interview Rana. Jan is suspicious of how Rana knew who killed the refugee, but not having seen the murder. With Maria's help, Rana is discovered not to be connected to The Head nor having any telepathical implants.

Rana reveals herself to be a witch, but iterates that she is not a cyber witch. On his way home, Jan sees a special red bird, which he stops to televise to Zen. Jan begins to feel ill and coughs up his nano-bioorganism implant, but is not eliminated by The Head.

Jan attends a festival where Ayka is performing on stage. During the performance Akya thrusts herself onto the floor among the crowd and Jan momentarily hallucinates Akya is Rana, and he draws his gun and points it at Ayka. Shocked, Jan holsters his weapon and, after the performance, they take an autonomous ride home where Ayka sleeps. Along the way, Jan gets out of the car and walks into the woods where he appears to transform into tiger and finds a wounded animal, but is scared back to the car by the animals cry.

Jan returns to the refugee center to confront Rana and demand to know why she is hacking his brain. She responds it is not her doing it, but Jan himself. Maria malfunctions and is eliminated by The Head. Jan demands the immigration guards arrest Rana for her murder. Rana's execution is televised and Jan makes Ayka watch and Ayka admits she caused the incident Rana was blamed for.

The citizens' connection to The Head is becoming progressively worse, with repeated outages. Instead of his usual work attire, Jan decides to wear individualistic civilian attire. Jan attempts to televise a rain shower in the desert to Zen, but fails. Jan attempts to re-contact Zen, but fails. The Head advises Jan that Zen is in danger. Jan drives to Zen and finds him on the ledge of a tall building overlooking the city. Jan rescues Zen and they both ride home.

Ayka confesses to Jan that she is responsible for everything. The refugee she murdered was Rana's lover and Ayka wanted to be with Rana. Ayka framed the immigration guard. Ayka used The Head to eliminate Maria. Akya hacked Jan's brain to hallucinate Mona as Rana. Akya telepathically manipulated Mona to sleep with Jan while Akya telepathically had sexual experiences with Rana. Akya is responsible for hacking Zen's brain and walking him to the roof of a tall building in the city.

Ayka reveals herself to be the mastermind behind the rebel group, seeking to dethrone The Head and return citizens to their human empathetic form. Furious, Jan devolves into his white-striped tiger form and mauls Ayka to death before being fatally shot to death by Zen with Jan's gun.