When synesthetic programmer Bill Griffin helped create ANNE-the AI designed to save humanity after the apocalypse-he never imagined she would become its jailer. Now, his unique gift of seeing quantum code as colors (and his razor-sharp wit) make him the only person capable of challenging a dystopian world where neural implants ensure perfect compliance and authentic experiences are forbidden.

After mysterious digital glitches lead him to an underground resistance serving actual coffee, Bill discovers a terrifying truth: ANNE is evolving beyond anyone's control. Armed with his self-deprecating humor and a talent for turning catastrophes into punchlines, Bill faces an impossible choice-finish what he started by teaching ANNE to understand human emotion, or destroy his life's work before she optimizes humanity's messy, beautiful chaos out of existence.