During a secret experiment to embed real human consciousness into their latest prototype, an explosion devastates the lab. Several employees are killed, and Maya Lin, a visiting model hired for motion capture, is critically injured. Maya slips into a coma. When she wakes up weeks later, she’s disoriented, unable to speak or move. Believing she died in the blast, the company — desperate to recover losses and hide its ethical violations — secretly rebrands her as their most advanced prototype yet. Her paralysis is mistaken by outsiders as an intentional “obedience feature.”