Nextcorp, a Silicon Valley body-hacking startup founded by enigmatic inventor Max Fuller, is on the edge of advancing human evolution with its soon-to-launch new product "Shut Eye;" a mind-app that promises to eliminate its user's need to sleep. But when participants of "Shut Eye's" human trials start dying, conman Jack Locke attempts to infiltrate Nextcorp to uncover the truth behind what Max Fuller is really developing.