In the past we believed that angels were supreme beings of benevolence. In the future, they will be mindless machines, created from the computer-scanned bodies of people so desperate for physical immortality they're willing to die to achieve it. They maintain a broken and failing civilization that is hopelessly addicted to a debilitating and ubiquitous narcotic known only as the "Drip".

It is in this world that Claire and her guide Miles, genetically modified to be immune to the "Drip" epidemic, venture. Miles possess a dangerous charisma which draws Claire to him and deeper into his corrupt realm of violence, sex and addiction...