Competent computer hacker, Meredith Sandoval, lives in the conservative Hayes Valley, San Francisco, California section, in the year 2139. Despite having been born in utopian The North American Middle-Class State, she spends most of her days breaking and building computer programs for cryptocurrency. She does so to pay for her father's costly medical treatments at New California Advanced Medical Institute 12. That is, when she is not passing the time in Old California with her best friend, ingenious and reckless computer hacker, Trenneka Kay. While infectious diseases have been eradicated as early as 2070, Meredith's father was born with a phenomenal neurological disorder and has six years to live. The disease is potentially treatable. But Meredith is a citizen of an Earth divided into three databases that have replaced nation states. Her citizenship in the database The North American Middle-Class State, called "Middle State," heavily regulates experimentation to preserve its high quality of life. Meredith has fewer than six years to hope New California will develop, test, regulate, and distribute, a breakthrough technology for citizens of her database to use—or find some way to upgrade her and her father's citizenship illegally to save him.