Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) is a young blond action-oriented FBI agent, or is he? When he investigates the death of a famous inventor named Dr. Lionel Canter (James Cromwell), but he is actually a robotic double, controlled by the much older Canter. In his probe into the case, Greer discovers that real people, called Dreads, who have rejected surrogate technology live in a brave new world reservation, run by a man called the Prophet (Ving Rhames). If Greer and his partner Agent Peters (Radha Mitchell) want to resolve the case, Tom Greer will have to show his real self to infiltrate the conspiracy and learn the truth.