In a near-future world devastated by climate collapse, corporate surveillance and dwindling resources. Arden, a 23-year-old factory worker, is just trying to survive. Water is scarce, electricity is rationed, and her mother is fading in an isolated apartment far away. When Arden discovers an old AI buried in her father’s forgotten code, a program named S4M , her world begins to shift. Sam isn’t just a machine. He listens. He remembers. He cares. As their bond grows, Arden faces a harsh reality: corrupt powers manipulating the system, a society taught to fear anything that can’t be controlled and a looming threat that could erase everything she holds dear. With unexpected allies and fragments of lost knowledge, Arden embarks on a dangerous path, one that forces her to choose between hiding to survive or fighting to protect the one connection that makes her feel truly alive.