A lamenting criminal investigator sooner rather than later chases down crooks who exchange “WifeLike” counterfeit people on the underground market. In the battle to end AI abuse, an underground opposition endeavors to penetrate him by undermining the programming of the counterfeit human relegated as his ally to act like his late spouse. She starts to scrutinize her existence as recollections of a previous existence start to surface in this present reality where nothing is as it appears.