In a far-future dystopia, a young girl imprisoned for religiously deviant thoughts and behaviors yearns to escape from the paradisal prison complex constructed by artificial intelligence. She is surprised when the artificial intelligence guarding her cell does not stop her inventive plan to get seven people to break her out.

A recently graduated high school senior who spends his summer as a garbage man suddenly stumbles upon what makes China Town stink so badly; the murdered corpses of hopeful Chinese immigrants who failed to pay their debts.