一家机器人公司与一名腐败的中情局特工联手,试图为自己定位,以赢得一份利润丰厚的军事合同。他们非法空投了4个机器人原型到臭名昭著的老挝、柬埔寨和泰国之间的金三角地带,对毫无戒心的毒枭进行现场实地测试,这是全世界永远不会错过的。其中一个机器人在空投中受损,机器人技术团队在它变得自知之明时失去了对它的控制,成为一个势不可挡的杀人机器。
Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel. A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills' body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength. The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first.