Two men in an isolated outpost share their stories of how they came to be there, in three tales of technology and horror.
When a man named Ash dies, his girlfriend Martha is grief-stricken... until a friend directs her to a service that can create an AI programmed with Ash's online personality. Eventually the software offers Martha a new improvement: a physical body for it to occupy.
A woman, Victoria, wakes up with amnesia and a fellow survivor tells her that nine-tenths of the world's population have been turned into photo-taking zombies by a mysterious TV signal. To get to safety, they have to evade the sadistic hunters and destroy the White Bear transmitter. However, Victoria soon realizes that something far more sinister is going on.
An animated blue bear, Waldo, proves surprisingly successful as a third-party candidate. But Jamie Salter, the voice of Waldo, begins to have second thoughts when he learns what the governments of the world intend to use Waldo for.
