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.作为留洋归来、具有新时代女性独立思想的孙瑾，不忍家乡百姓被迷幻手段欺压，与未婚夫杨烈钧、好友黎叔文一起誓将邪祟铲除，却不料越陷越深才发现比幻术更险恶的是人心，正所谓幻象倾倒方见真相大白。