See Bushra Batal, talented but driftless data analyst from Albania coding away in an American mega-city where self-driving cars are matter-of-fact and virtual reality is on the cusp of widespread embrace. Strange things have begun to happen at her office that autumn. It is a season characterized by dissonance between technology and humanity, by her past in the east and an off-key present in the west. Just when she finally wraps her fingers around a career break Bushra has spent her whole adult life working towards, bombshell corruption scandals plunge the city into violent unrest and drag her into an absurd and sinister world of holograms, private detectives, street riots, cryptocurrencies, coverups, AI, and the shadowy bodies that pull all these strings unseen.