| In the not-so-distant future, Hank Delowski, a prominent New York neurobiologist, explores the frontiers of science. He treats the brain like a machine, finding ways to fix it and improve it. That is, until his son Ike is gunned down in the street by agents who represent an international group of Immortalists -- wealthy men looking for a way to live forever. Desperate to save his comatose son's life, Hank brings him to a Chinese metropolis where scientists operate without governament oversight -- cloning human beings, transplanting brains, creating cyborgs. As Ike's body dies, Hank transplants his brain into a powerful computer -- only to have the computer stolen from the lab by the very men who orchestrated his shooting. Hank sets off to find his "boy in a box", as Ike uses only his microphone ears and electronic speech to escape his captors. |
