In 1915, a German saboteur comes to Manhattan. Co-opting progressive labor politics, he provokes a neutral America into World War I.

A widowed man seeks counsel from a priest before exacting revenge on his wife's killer.

The film is a science fiction love story that explores the intersection of technology and humanity, following a young woman from a future where people have suppressed their emotions as she enters a simulation of the past. There, she discovers the feelings that make us human and finds herself falling in love.