Advances in nanotechnology have led to the development of weapons that are attractive to governments who want to wage war without actually declaring it. With extremely high payoffs, the military industrial complex is willing to push these pioneering boundaries. Their aim is to invent, control, and exploit unique biotech phenomena, encountered in matter at sub-100-nm length scales. Unethical human experimentation is the new reality, allowing weapons manufacturers to partner with jails to test subjects – human lab rats. Satoshi Telefair Industries, a super-sized global research corporation and provider of choice for the military, operates experimental apparatus The Wheel.

Motivated by greed, their scientific breakthroughs blur the lines between war and peace, military and civilian, public and private, the physical and digital, ethical and unethical. A symptom of this unhinged society is a lack of empathy and Satoshi Telefair has unconscionably taken advantage of this by developing AE-57, an anti-empathy serum, to disconnect one’s mind from one’s emotions. 

The experiment is geared to break Mills, but his instinct keeps him alive. His entire being goes into sensory overload as he adapts and modifies his body. His emotional transition is heightened by hallucinations that force him to believe his daughter is within the confines of the facility.

Even escape offers no end to Mills’ distress, as the nano-blood continues to flow through his veins. Shadowiness within each spoke limits both Mills and his assailant’s vision, adding to the frightening reality, a stark contrast to the exterior of the facility, bathed in bright, yet cold sunlight. Accentuating the ominous nature of this intricate maze, each spoke of the facility is identical and the corridors mysteriously lead to dead ends or go in circles. In an all-out battle, can Mills beat his controllers at their own game?