Maddie is a bullied teen who has been receiving help from a mysterious stranger online, who is soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David.

This is possible because David's consciousness was uploaded to the cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. He is the first of a new kind of being – known as an "Uploaded Intelligence" – but he won't be the last, as a global conspiracy has begun that threatens to ignite a new kind of world war.

Based on a collection of short stories by award-winning author Ken Liu.