Fatima a physicist who embraces fringe theories including simulation theory— that the known universe is a colossal video game—finds affirmation and intrigue when she meets Trey in a “chance” coffee shop meeting, a business owner who has a fixation with the “glitches” in our otherwise seamless reality. For him, it is evidence of alternate reality. Meanwhile, Timmy, an auto mechanic, enjoys his pedestrian existence of fixing cars at work and building things at home, but cannot shake the feeling that he is building and repairing more than what lies in front of him. Aaravi is a spiritualist and is Fatima’s friend and confidante who discusses the glitches Fatima raised and finds a correlate with the eastern notion of maya or “illusion.”