Inquiry
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While thousands sleep, plugged into a massive VR network, one man holds it all together. The innocent and curious clone, Eight, walks the service tunnels and climbs the catwalks fixing hardware issues with help from his AI companion, Virma. But when one of the users accesses a restricted part of the network, Eight must investigate the anomaly and confront his own internal conflict about his purpose in the facility.
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