The film is set in a future where death from illness has become rare. When Katherine Mortenhoe is diagnosed as aving an incurable disease, she becomes a celebrity and is besieged by journalists. The television company NTV offers her a large sum of money if she will allow her last days to be filmed and made into a reality television show – they have already spied on her as she is told of her diagnosis and prepared posters for the show which show her face.