O agente do FBI Kurt Weller é arrastado para uma conspiração complexa quando uma Jane Doe, nua e amnésica, é encontrada em Times Square com o corpo cheio de tatuagens...incluindo o nome dele nas costas.

Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm has become a virtual police state where Negotiators like Roger Smith keep the wheels of progress, commerce, and society turning.