In an identical present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is having a hard time to sustain himself as well as his troubling more youthful brother. After a collection of two-bit rushes and not successful rip-offs, Ray takes a job in a strange brand-new realm of the gig economic situation: travelling deep into the woodland, drawing cord over miles of surface to connect big, metal dices that link together the new quantum trading market. As he obtains pulled deeper into the zone, he experiences growing hostility and the risk of robot cablers, and have to pick to either assist his fellow workers or to get rich and venture out.