
Liam Anderson, the heir to a fortune, works as an ordinary junior employee at the conglomerate, pouring all his energy into developing a photonic quantum computer. His breakthrough is then stolen by his supervisor, Amelia Taylor. But the computer harbors a catastrophic flaw—one that, if not fixed in time, will paralyze every computer on the planet. Amelia refuses to believe it, fires Liam on the spot, and ends up triggering a global meltdown.