Are we everything our machines would want us to be? Richard Kidd's life comes crashing down when he gets fired from his job and his girlfriend drops him for another man. Suddenly alone, in a stark apartment by the sea, he begins to struggle with his new life. But a chance meeting with an enigmatic professor offers a way out. The professor introduces him to his latest research project, an A.I. with an uncanny knack for guiding its subjects to the alternative...