After a civil uprising, Civatika is the gated city of the future where there is no crime. Residents live and work in peace under the watchful eye of Zercon until one day a Murder takes place.

Detective Daniel Morris, who likes to catch killers the old fashioned way, is brought in from the outside to find the killer. To do so he must deal with a modern computer system and some extremely uncooperative, and sinister Robots, making his job in a city where everything is watched and recorded, almost impossible.