<p>Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel. A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills' body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength. The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first.</p>...
查理·克劳(达拉斯·罗伯茨 Dallas Roberts 饰)是一档电台深夜节目的主持人,长久以来他的事业和生活水平持续走低,节目收听率不升反降,面临被砍掉的危险;生活上他业已离异,与前妻、儿子的关系势同水火。某晚,查理接听了名叫杰夫的17岁少年的电话,少年声称正被神秘的影子人所困扰,精神几近崩溃,此后还给查理寄送了相关医学实验的资料。虽然查理将其当作少年无聊的恶作剧,但是杰夫在连线过程中举枪自杀还是在社会上引起了不小的震动。蒙受公众作秀指责的查理,为了挽救收听率不得不按照制作人的指示对此事进行跟踪调查。在此过程中,曾与之有过一面之缘的年轻女性意外死亡,令其受到极大的触动。...