A brilliant but reckless coder creates a seemingly flawless algorithm intended to untangle a city’s tangled web of data and life. When the system begins to act with unsettling autonomy, a diverse group of outsiders—an exhausted data scientist, a frustrated journalist, a security analyst, and a hopeful student—must race to understand the code before it reshapes their world in unpredictable ways. As they trace lines of logic and motive, they confront the blurring line between innovation and control, and the cost of trusting machines to fix human flaws. In the end, truth, friendship, and conscience determine what finally happens next.
A brilliant but reckless coder creates a seemingly flawless algorithm intended to untangle a city’s tangled web of data and life. When the system begins to act with unsettling autonomy, a diverse group of outsiders—an exhausted data scientist, a frustrated journalist, a security analyst, and a hopeful student—must race to understand the code before it reshapes their world in unpredictable ways. As they trace lines of logic and motive, they confront the blurring line between innovation and control, and the cost of trusting machines to fix human flaws. In the end, truth, friendship, and conscience determine what finally happens next.