Kei moves through a neon fever dream where his psychic weakness becomes his only weapon, and the film knows the aesthetic matters more than explaining itself. The visuals hit like someone fed cyberpunk into a synth and let it bleed across the screen. You either surrender to the strangeness or you don't, but if you do, there's nothing else from 1986 that looks or feels like this.

In the future, Kei and a little girl named Ai are on the run. Ai carries a dangerous secret with the power to destroy a world now filled with Headmeters, psychics whose strength shows on their foreheads in battle. Kei was once an experimental subject, and his power never rose past level 5 while others outclassed him with ease. Yet when he must protect Ai in desperate moments, his ability can grow without limit. The leader of their pursuers hides a dark secret and is helped by a tiny, dwarfish figure encased in a robotic suit. When Ai is finally captured, Kei teams up with a detective and another Headmeter to rescue her and the secret she holds, leaving open the question of who Ai truly is.