Num futuro sombrio e próximo, um ex-combatente da liberdade relutantemente volta ao redil depois de descobrir um segredo perturbador que pode derrubar a empresa que é dona do mundo. It is the year 2027, eight years after the first outbreak of The Sickness, a highly contagious, adaptive and lethal virus. The world is now run by a pharmaceutical corporation called The Company, which distributes a treatment for the virus but charges a high price for it, putting the majority of people in a state of poverty and dependence.