A corrupt businessman called Andrew Vaughan is resurrected after his death by Eyelight Industries, a 22nd century megacorporation with no guiding principle except profit. Vaughan is offered a second life in an android body, on the condition that he take over as CEO of the company. In the year 2118, virtually everyone is hooked up to Eyelight, a system that began as a search engine and social network but which now controls almost every aspect of human life. A growing religious organisation called the Church of Sagacity opposes the technology, encouraging its followers to disconnect, to throw off the shackles of digital oppression.