A troubled woman, barred by her employer from continuing her research, walks miserably through New York City. Everybody is looking up. A man has been thrown from the upper floor of the a skyscraper. And that woman-Angela Spica, sick from transhuman implants she's buried in her own body - is the only one who can save him. What she doesn't know is that the act of saving that one man will tip over a vast and secret house of cards that encloses the entire world, if not the inner solar system.