Qohen Leth, a computer programmer for a mysterious company, lives in a London of the future where the virtual reigns supreme. He is given a secret mission: to determine whether life has any meaning. Gilliam present a new oppressive political allegory, in the spirit of the cult Orwellian diptych Brazil and Twelve Monkeys. A Big Brother 2.0 where feelings are crushed by an inhuman administration, with Christoph Waltz as a haunted hermit.