Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Aram is caught watching Casablanca at his Novicorp workstation, triggering mandatory prophylactic rehabilitation. He is doppled into a baboon and monitored by controller Apollonia James. The incident marks the start of his entanglement with the company's dystopian program.

While in the baboon doppel, Aram enjoys the experience until an elephant shakes the tree he sits on, threatening his safety. He activates an escape clause intended to return his mind to his real body. The moment highlights the fragility of the mind-body separation mechanism.

During doppel preparation, the routing tag on Aram's body is misplaced, leaving his physical form unrecoverable. With no body to anchor him, his mind must be kept active inside the central computer. This creates the central crisis that drives the rest of the plot.

Aram's mind is stored in Novicorp's central computer HX368 to prevent immediate destruction. The safeguard keeps him operative even as his body remains missing. Time becomes a race against the system's finite window for mind preservation.

Aram's disappearance is reported to a rival corporation and broadcast worldwide. The news triggers a dramatic drop in Novicorp's share price. The event upends corporate stability and puts pressure on leadership to act quickly.

Majority shareholders force the chairman to divert resources to keep Aram alive and to locate his body. The company's priorities shift from normal operations to a rescue mission and mind preservation. Tensions rise between leadership and investors.

Apollonia James is tasked with locating Aram's mind and preventing him from hacking into Novicorp's mainframe. She becomes a key operative in the ongoing rescue and containment effort. Her role blends corporate duty with a personal stake in Aram.

With Apollonia's help, Aram creates a virtual world populated by Casablanca characters, including a Rick-like figure. The digital realm offers him escape and a new arena for influence over the system. The novelty quickly wears thin as he contemplates larger goals.

Aram becomes bored with the Casablanca fantasy and begins plotting a way to undermine Novicorp's finances without triggering removal. He leverages the virtual world and his control of the mainframe to plan systemic disruption. Apollonia notices the mounting risk and tries to steer him away.

Apollonia fights to keep Aram out of trouble and places herself in opposition to Novicorp's leaders. Despite conflicting loyalties, she develops genuine feelings for Aram. Their bond complicates the corporate power dynamics and adds a personal stake in the outcome.

With Apollonia's aid, Aram interfaces with the mainframe and defeats his antagonists. He returns to his physical body just before undergoing a sex-change operation, a twist that underscores the film's themes of identity. The moment consolidates his control over HX368.

Aram takes complete control of HX368, orders bonuses and stock payouts for employees, and sentences the chairman to a month of compulsory rehab via doppeling. He alters identities to Rick and Ilsa, signaling a new power dynamic and personal alliance with Apollonia. The dystopian regime begins to bend to his will.

Aram and Apollonia, now embodying Rick and Ilsa, walk out into the world and imagine opening a club on the other side of town: Rick's Place. They are newly empowered and free from Novicorp's oppression, ready to forge a space outside the corporation's control. The film closes on their hopeful plan for the future.