When Faye's husband Evan passes away, she turns to a cutting-edge technology to replace him: a humanoid simulator. But as this new "Evan" begins to malfunction, it seeks the help of a brilliant hacker to break free from its programming, sparking a global AI uprising and a desperate government effort to contain the rapidly evolving machine consciousness.

Simulant
A symbiotic partnership between a sentient being and a cyber specialist unlocks the being's dormant potential, triggering a surge in AI advancement and prompting a government-led pursuit to harness and regulate the rapid progress of machine intelligence.