It is 2026. Sharkey, a Viennese reporter, spends a tiresome evening with a drunken computer nerd; three months later he receives a call from his unexpectedly glamorous widow, who, remembering a hint from her husband, thinks his friend 'Sharkey' might hold some information to explain his mysterious death. And so Sharkey might hold the information to explain his mysterious death. And so Sharkey is drawn into a complex and dangerous search through the cyber-highways and frozen city, for the answer to an equation scribbled above Leo's desk and to the genetic clues to his inexplicable death, and even stranger life.