The CGI animators built a Japan so detailed and isolationist that the visuals become the actual story, not decoration for it. Every frame is weaponized, the cel-shading, the mechanical surfaces, the way light bends off synthetic skin all say what the dialogue doesn't need to. The action sequences move through this world like they were designed in a physics engine and then given permission to break the rules. The plot exists to justify showing you what happens when humanity tries to seal itself off from its own upgrades. It doesn't reinvent the cyberpunk wheel, but it spins it faster and colder than almost anything else on film.

The year is 2077. Ten years earlier, the United Nations banned further research into robotics, a field Japan dominated through Daiwa Heavy Industries. Japan objected, left international politics and sealed its islands behind a powerful magnetic field, keeping only trade with the outside world. When a string of strange incidents suggests Japan has secretly kept developing forbidden technology, the American technology police agency SWORD sends a team of special agents to slip into the country. Vexille, a veteran agent who leads the unit, is drawn into a chain of mysteries about what Daiwa is doing and who the woman helping her, Maria, really is. This science fiction action film follows her search for the truth behind a decade of isolation.