Julia, a young woman in her mid 20s who makes money as a thief in seedy nightclubs, is abducted from her home and wakes up imprisoned in a jail cell with a glowing implant in the back of her neck. Two other subjects are with her. After multiple sessions of psychological torture, she destroys the cell and adjacent lab in an escape attempt. The two other subjects are killed by a robot, Aries, run by an artificial intelligence named Tau. Aries is about to kill Julia when Alex, the man who has been torturing her arrives and stops it.