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The story happens in a futuristic city controlled by CONNECT!, an AI operated corporation whose mission is to create a 'better future'. The corporation is eager to build a city where individuals experience only positive emotions, and it does whatever it takes to achieve its goal.

In order to achieve its grand plan, CONNECT! has published a series of law, aiming to eliminate any negative emotions. The city has a strict emotion limit, which allows and encourages its residents to feel and express joy and excitement, but restricts any expression on frustration, sadness and anger. Harsh consequence applies if any resident decides to take the risk of breaking regulations.

The story of Karla happens in 2079, 30 years since the city has been formed. During the past decades, the city has developed its own system, including the financial, which abandons paper money but welcomes social media wealth by regarding followers as wealth. As such, individuals are encouraged to express and celebrate the positive aspects of their lives. CONNECT! has spread conspiracy theories all over the city's web that discourages individuals from exploring life beyond their immediate social media profiles and supposed happiness

Intrigued by such a unidirectional world-view, Karla, one day, expresses her frustration and scepticism on social media about how unlikely it is that the world is such a positive place where everyone seems to be always happy. The algorithms of CONNECT! immediately pick up Karla's anomaly post and set in motion a chain of reactions that Karla could never have imagined.