In 2017 people are living their lives remotely from the safety of their homes through surrogate robots.
Substitutes are mechanical representations of themselves but ideal, younger, more attractive and physically perfect. The creator of the substitutes is Canter, is a genius, but finishing morally and ruined since the death of his son, who was killed while using a surrogate of his father, believing it was him and not her son.
The murderers were human against the surrogates not wanted in society, and Canter to see him out of control, use a surrogate for to be the boss of those who did not want to sustitutes.
Tom Greer detective investigating the murder with his partner Jennifer Peters, he manages see and chase the murderer,but the murderer ends his surrogate and his boss ejects of the case. But in the end ignored his boss and end Canter wanted to send a virus to all surrogate, Tom avoided him, but he destroyed surrogates, because it did not look good for humanity.
