Emily is a law enforcement teacher who suffers from an anxiety disorder. Actual law enforcement isn't performed by people, with automatons having replaced humans. In Emily's world, every individual is connected to Geodesics - a powerful AI which converses with each person and guides their decisions. The Manifold is an anti-Geodesics organisation. Their goal is to free people from AI, aiming to create an autonomy within the city which is devoid of Geodesics. Freedom of choice itself hangs in the balance as the forces of the technological world and biological mysteries collide.