In the futuristic capital of Mzansi, also known as South Africa, the environment has been laid to waste, and holograms and trajectories provide consumers with a constant flow of media information, such as popular opinions or local news. While going to check on his friend Lion, KG walks through the polluted streets and automatically receives trajectory messages conveying local opinions about the invasive X-Cell trees, Breathers, and the drug “Strike.” He arrives at an bookshop and meets his sickly friend. Lion was born with HIV and must regularly receive the annual Mula treatment to stay alive. He tells KG that the clinics have doubled the price of Mula, and he can no longer afford it. KG immediately starts thinking of ways to obtain the treatment for his friend. They travel through the underground roads to meet with a friend who owes him a favor. On their way, some people offer to sell them Strike, a drug with dangerous side effects that was developed for HIV but is now used recreationally. KG refuses their offers, and they meet with his friend who works at one of the clinics. After persuading her to lend him her employee card, he sneaks into the treatment center with Lion. KG receives trajectories from the clinic stating that patients must renew Mula treatments every year if they want to live. One of the clinic doctors catches them and unsympathetically tells them to leave. He says that countless people take desperate measures in order to steal the treatment, and the clinic has only maintained order by turning them away. The doctor also hints that the requirement to renew Mula every year is fake, and the drug does not even really change anything. KG dejectedly brings him sick friend back to the bookstore and knows that there is nothing he can do.