[Welcome to Hong Kong 2124. I'm your host, the Caretaker. In these stories of supernatural power, we share triumph and heartbreak. Ade Anunoby sits in the basement of his home, quietly reassuring his brother Paul that the anxiety in his head is a product of the times...] This is the new slogan That broke is fixed and fixed is broken We're redefining the line And deifying the times This is the new slogan That broke is fixed and fixed is broken We're redefining the line And deifying our crimes What are you doing, He's speaking to you Quit living with fear now, He's speaking to you Just drop these notions, He's speaking to you It's speaking to you, He's speaking to you You've got these notions, these remnants of dread They hurt you then, now you're better off dead Than take a step, in the direction you're led And listen to the voice inside of your head This is the new slogan That broke is fixed and fixed is broken We're redefining the line And deifying the times This is the new slogan That broke is fixed and fixed is broken We're redefining the line And deifying our crimes What do we know about the shape of the heart It beckons, it speaks, and it tears us apart My mind will sing through the tings and the arps My life ain't defined by these feelings so far You've got these notions, these remnants of dread They hurt you then, now you're better off dead Than take a step, in the direction you're led And get the anxiety out of your head This is the new slogan That broke is fixed and fixed is broken We're redefining the line And deifying the times This is the new slogan That broke is fixed and fixed is broken We're redefining the line And deifying our crimes This is the new slogan That broke is fixed and fixed is broken We're redefining the line And deifying the times

[A month ago, Adam Thornhill, renowned VR actor, was buying drugs from a dealer. The dealer was out of product, and Adam lashed out. Suddenly, he saw the face of Yeshua in the man. Frightened, he ran away. Now, a month later, he’s ready to change...] (Adam) There I was in the streets, with my flesh in need With a lust for snow, I approached him slow A knife at his chest, my volition had peaked And then I saw your face An appeal to my own fate Running through the night I left without a trace All these voices, all these voices All these voices, all these voices I saw your face in a dealer I see your face in my mother's tears And then you wiped away All the shame and fear We are all connected through this vestige By a message Through the fires we are tested No longer slaves to what we’re left with All these voices, all these voices All these voices, all these voices I saw your face in a dealer I see your face in my mother's tears And then you wiped away All the shame and fear I saw your face in a dealer I see your face in my mother's tears And then you wiped away All the shame and fear We are all connected through this vestige By a message Through the fires we are tested No longer slaves to what we’re left with

[Miles Urquhart thought VR gaming would fill the void in his soul. Then after an intense hour of cyber-debauchery, he feels complete emptiness. He turns to tell his story to an estranged old friend, Dre McIntosh, whom had been praying for him for years...] (Miles) I shed my mask for you, Lord I give my past to you, Lord I tread this path with you, Lord No other love’s a match for you (Dre) I shed my mask for you, Lord I give my past to you, Lord I tread this path with you, Lord No other love’s a match for you (Miles) Have you felt these pixels Immersed around you Living a fantasy While I showed my true self As I bashed his brains in I played the escapist The power was a high Was this enlightenment? While my body decayed In the real life And I lost all feeling For my health and my wife I hit a ceiling And my rivals had spiked My heart was full Of jealousy and strife Digital and analogue The Masquerade falls And the virtual self’s gone And so are these walls Digital and analogue The Masquerade falls And the virtual self’s gone And so are these walls I shed my mask for you, Lord I give my past to you, Lord I tread this path with you, Lord No other love’s a match for you (Dre) I shed my mask for you, Lord I give my past to you, Lord I tread this path with you, Lord No other love’s a match for you (Miles) I don't deserve, anything Jewels, glory or rings They were all fake kings This digital god That I bowed to Tore my brain and my name in two I have exposed this pain A discomfort I’ve found Deep in my veins My friend, you've always prayed For me safe and sound To the end of this age Digital and analogue The Masquerade falls And the virtual self’s gone And so are these walls Digital and analogue The Masquerade falls And the virtual self’s gone And so are these walls (Dre) Now I know I don't have to save my face Just knowing you gave me grace You pulled me out of the grave And when you speak, the whole earth it shakes Knowing your embrace You forgave me of my mistakes (Miles) Digital and analogue The Masquerade falls And the virtual self’s gone And so are these walls Digital and analogue The Masquerade falls And the virtual self’s gone And so are these walls

[Ilya Vesnikov has been trying to repair her relationship with her ill mother, Talia Vesnikov, for years. Talia enters a relationship with a young man named Lao Feng. Ilya knows him to be a smooth-talking con-artist capable of abuse and greedy for money, from her own solo interactions with him. But despite pleas to her mother to break up, her mother doesn't listen. They eventually get married. One night, Ilya is wandering the streets of Hong Kong when she gets a call from corporate police telling her that Talia has burned to death. A trial is held with Lao Feng as a suspect, and he convinces the judge and jury that he is innocent despite Talia's insistence and claims that he murdered her to collect the insurance money. Lao Feng is easily acquitted and eventually goes back to another woman in the following months, whom he had previously fathered children with. Absolutely consumed with a mixture of vengeance, sadness, and hatred for Lao Feng, months pass by and one day Ilya drives to Lao Feng's residence, with one goal in mind: to kill him by mowing him down with her vehicle. Throughout her journey, a voice speaks through her mind telling her against it. Arriving at his residence, she parks across the street, and in an hour, Lao Feng steps out. But then his children also step out...] (Ilya) You can never know my pain How could you easily get away With that heinous act you played Now I'm gunna make you pay I am your punisher Delivering vengeance You'll suffer on this earth And every day it goes by Seeing her face in the pyre Suffering in so much pain Who could deserve such a fate? But now you're gunna face the fires And I'll make you taste these tires Grovel in the gravel Your perfect life unraveled (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה) Promises of pain Hurting through your brain This is not the way But a grave mistake The blood you spill coagulates Into sins that'll haunt in age Listen to my voice Follow me and you're safe (Ilya) Driving through the night This voice gives insight Between the dark and light Vengeance is on my mind I am your punisher Delivering vengeance You'll suffer on this earth I am your punisher Delivering vengeance You'll suffer on this earth You'll know the hurt that you gave me You better dig your grave deep You think I'm crazy? I'll show you crazy! Hatred She was worth nothing to you Your greed is abundant for two You'd never visit her tomb The evidence goes through the roof Do they know your deceit? You will admit your defeat It's too late to turn a new leaf Your grave is less than six feet! (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה) Promises of pain Hurting through your brain This is not the way But a grave mistake The blood you spill coagulates Into sins that'll haunt in age Listen to my voice Follow me and you're safe (Ilya) Driving through the night This voice gives insight Between the dark and light Vengeance is on my mind Driving through the night This voice gives insight Between the dark and light Vengeance is on my mind You can never know my pain How could you easily get away With that heinous act you played Now I'm gunna make you... What am I doing? This isn't me I almost killed a man In front of his breed What am I doing? This isn't me I almost killed a man In front of his breed What am I doing? This isn't me I almost killed a man In front of his breed What am I doing? This isn't me I'll make the right choice And I'll be free

[Derrick Delia and Xun Gengxin were long in love, and members of Aetherspace, a fanatical religious doomsday cult. Gengxin, having been addicted to virtual reality for years, decides she wants to upload her consciousness into the vast, underground database maintained by the cult. Derrick however, a higher member in Aetherspace, suddenly doesn't believe in the aims of it anymore. He tries to convince Gengxin to leave the cult with him, but she refuses and does not believe him. Out of sadness and fear, Derrick, who secretly believed in some form of afterlife, and wanting to flee the cult and the state of the world, leaves her and travels to a newfound space colony on the Moon because he thinks she will not change. Gengxin in despair, wallows in her depression, filling the void in her heart with virtual reality, all the while reconsidering her decision to upload her mind. There is a hope...] (The Caretaker) The silence sizzles in the stream of her breath The air frozen pixelated fractals This reality or death, like light to the pests Pushes her further into shackles She remembers a time, when they shared space But he left to the stars just to save his face And now she looks up, with an off-world hope And it blinds her in more than her eyes Don't look backwards or you'll see the snakes There's an infestation and you'll lose the race But there's a hope Just drop the deadweights and go Don't look backwards or you'll see the snakes There's an infestation and you'll lose the race And there's a soul Buried in the shell you call home Still she waits And still she hopes The loudness fuels, the pump of his heart Living in dreams was never an art to him He wanted less With finality and death Torn asunder from his rosebud He is free to look to love Yet there's still doubt Of any beyond that exists Don't look backwards or you'll see the snakes There's an infestation and you'll lose the race But there's a hope Just drop the deadweights and go Don't look backwards or you'll see the snakes There's an infestation and you'll lose the race And there's a soul Buried in the shell you call home The dead space, that is between the stars Will not point to who you are Looking onward while wearing a mask Reaching out for what you cannot grasp She thought the love would never fade But the love turned out to be a fake Mazed and dazed, fazed at the fate Does fate exist? She thought they were soul mates Don't look backwards or you'll see the snakes There's an infestation and you'll lose the race And there's a hope Just drop the deadweights and go Don't look backwards or you'll see the snakes There's an infestation and you'll lose the race And there's a soul Buried in the shell you call home

[In the panic of a nuclear World War IV, the worldwide neo-religious cult Aetherspace preps its members for the uploading of their minds into a vast, underground database, only to emerge after the war streaming the consciousness into new, wireless, artificial-flesh bodies to reap the leftover material possessions and establish a government in the ashes. Calling it "a gift" and a "calling from God," Donovan Delia, the bespectacled and charismatic leader, spits promises of a paradise cultivated from a union of nature and technology from his pulpit. The first demonstrated test subject was Aetherspace member and financial backer Han Shin, a former drug lord with terminal lung cancer. The test, by the looks of it, appeared to be a success. In a live broadcast through VR networks and television, countless viewers and in-person spectators watched as the supposedly digitized consciousness of Han Shin stumbled through the podium in his new, wireless body. Donovan Delia then performed a litmus test of the most secretive of Han Shin's memories, and the body passed with flying colours to thunderous applause worldwide. From that day forward, thousands of financers poured equity and investment into the project. Fast forward to the present. Upload day is imminent, and threats of World War IV paint an impending doom upon the populace. Jamal Fox, however, has a divine vision one day of a message to deliver to Delia, and through it, has uncovered a terrible secret. Jamal discovered that the upload procedure makes an AI copy of the person's consciousness, and the original person dies. And not only does Donovan Delia believe himself to be a prophet of his own false ideology, but that he is corrupt from his power. Jamal then confronts Donovan Delia...] (Jamal) Can your mind live as a tomb? And pass this Chinese Room? This digitization, is sensation His self is dead, it's just imitation (Donovan) Who do you think you are? You're lowly, you won't get far (Jamal) I'm trying to save you, from the stakes You came with an aim, but it's a grave (Donovan) You're just causing, further fission And it only causes to further my own vision (Jamal) If only you would just listen This addiction is a sickness, and soon a perdition (Jamal) We could agree to disagree But I'm not giving up I won't let you make this mistake (Donovan) Why do you care for me? Who am I to you? (Jamal) We all thought you cared for us (Jamal) Is this a world that you'd want to live in? Where darkness reigns, among division I've seen a new world, in my visions A kingdom of provision (Jamal) There's a house with many rooms Just waiting for you to come through (Donovan) That's not a world that we'll live in I'm here to solve this division Aetherspace is on a mission And we will erase your fiction Who are you to talk to me You are no leader, I'm a king It was I who led the way And you won't be here to stay (Donovan) The material world is ours From the beaches to the towers Our enemies, they will cower We will be immortal, in an hour (Jamal) A digital construct, it creates And your mind will be a grave Your brother gave me this message, it's not too late The upload is a fake (Donovan) My brother? (Jamal) Is this a world that you'd want to live in? Where darkness reigns, among division I've seen a new world, in my visions A kingdom of provision

[Yao Yen (Yen Yao) is on a hunting safari with his friend in the jungles of southern China, hunting genetically cloned South China tigers that were resurrected and reintroduced into the wild, when suddenly, two tigers attack and critically injure them. On the brink of death to these tigers, out of nowhere appears Heng Liu (Liu Heng), who kills the tigers and saves their lives. Heng tells Yao that he was a mile away and that an angel told him the exact location of Yao and that he was in danger and needed to be saved. Yao is shocked. He vows to tell this story to everyone, but doubts they will believe it...] Angelus - Latin for "messenger" (Yao) I now see there's no limit To the miracles I'll witness I rethink start to finish My own purpose and vision I don't know where you've come from You don't know all the things I've done Out in the wild my heart burns cold Begging you now to feel my soul I'll get slandered And I'll get mocked But none of that matters Real love won't stop Everything's fake Compared to the truth But how will they listen? When the heart holds the proof? (Yao) I stared into the jaws of death To faith from existential dread And then you came, out from left Revealed to me, the life I'd led (Heng) You're here for a purpose You're here for a reason Don't think otherwise This lie is a demon (Yao) This is a sensation That is new to me (Heng) There's more to life Than living the dream (Yao) I don't know where you've come from You don't know all the things I've done Out in the wild my heart burns cold Begging you now to feel my soul (Heng) Miracles come and wonders go Out of the grounds the roots will grow Enemies fade with tears they fall Salvation comes to save them all (Yao) I'll get slandered And I'll get mocked But none of that matters Real love won't stop Everything's fake Compared to the truth But how will they listen? When the heart holds the proof? I now see there's no limit To the miracles I'll witness I rethink start to finish My own purpose and vision I don't know where you've come from You don't know all the things I've done Out in the wild my heart burns cold Begging you now to feel my soul (Heng) Miracles come and wonders go Out of the grounds the roots will grow Enemies fade with tears they fall Salvation comes to save them all

[After an intense breakup with her lover Callum Stinegrove, Priscilla "Cilla" Hurtad escapes to the now-abandoned island of Efate, of the former nation of Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean. Arriving in the nation's former capital of Port Vila (once completely destroyed by nuclear fallout during World War III), anxiety and depression contribute to the agony that drives her isolation. Woodworking, drinking, and reading books, she sits in quiet forlorn, when a whisper tells her that growth isn't possible without pain...] (Cilla) Sever the ties and cut the rope No faking holding on to hope It's time to choose a road Getting hurt is the key to growth I ran away, from this noise To an island of decay Across the sea I'm isolated On my throne of dopamine The world can't hurt me anymore These walls protect my mind Make an incision, stare inside You'll be surprised at what you find What have I done? I thought I found peace Instead I am trapped In my kingdom of greed Where are you now? I don't know if you're there All I ask is do you care? About my deep despair What is the course of action? When reality splits in fractions? When everything you thought you knew Comes down within your bastion? Sever the ties and cut the rope No faking holding on to hope It's time to choose a road Getting hurt is the key to growth The scent of pine It takes me back To nights of passion My senses crash My memory's held captive To a spectre of this past Just thinking of you And the grave of our failures Our love never bloomed It became a fossil Filling this tomb With everything awful Just thankful it was possible Just thankful it was possible Can healing soon be found When my feelings make me bound Is there a hand at the end of the road That'll pull me out of the ground Alone I am lost In my counsel of thoughts That tempt me with All of power and gloss I'm cowering, mocked By an hourly clock That ticks away As I count all I've sought What have I done? I thought I found peace Instead I am trapped In my kingdom of greed Where are you now? I don't know if you're there All I ask is do you care? About my deep despair What is the course of action? When reality splits in fractions? When everything you thought you knew Comes down within your bastion? (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה) Cilla. Leave. Trust Me. (Cilla) Trapped on an island Full of fear on this island I've got to leave this island

[Salvador Iqua lives within his own vast wealth in the upper limits of Hong Kong, addicted to VR. Upon receiving a spiritual experience, he then feels convicted about never sharing his material possessions with the homeless populations starving in the streets, longing for more...] (Salvador) Priorities, priorities I'm lying in luxury sheets While people bleed in the streets The vicious press through the meek My empathy's on, a cliff so steep Turn off the digital face This is no time for escape It's time to place all my faith In a path, these steps I must take There's a quest to be, community I'm questioning my placement of Priorities, priorities, priorities, priorities I'll take the speck from my eye I'm no longer special inside I won't stand idle, while you're in survival Cause I'm discipled by a love so bridal There's a quest to be, community I'm questioning my placement of Priorities, priorities, priorities, priorities There's a quest to be, community I'm questioning my placement of Priorities, priorities, priorities, priorities Priorities, priorities, priorities, priorities Priorities, priorities, priorities, priorities There's a quest to be, community I'm questioning my placement of Priorities, priorities, priorities, priorities There's a quest to be, community I'm questioning my placement of Priorities, priorities, priorities, priorities

[Recent divorcee Levi Rodriguez and his brother Alex go on a drug-fueled bender in the streets on a speedball of meth and cocaine one night. While high, he decides to visit his ex-wife Alissa and their son Jamie, but Alissa angrily tells him to leave and never come back. Levi and his brother reach an epiphany on their drug addiction...] (Levi) This is a vicious cycle (Alex) Woah (Levi) This was a test and I'm sleeping on the job And then this high wasn't everything I thought (Alex) Awaken me Away from me My soul's asleep Who can forgive me of the pain I've dealt? (Levi) Awaken me Away from me My soul's asleep I need a savior and it's not myself Chemical blast to the brain From a vicious past Walking through the streets While you're beat And you've met defeat (Levi) Monster (Alex) These words go through your head (Levi) Too late (Alex) You wish that you were dead (Levi) Snow and speed It slows the feed But it's not the fix That my soul would need Snow and speed It slows the feed But it's not the fix That my soul would need (Alex) Awaken me Away from me My soul's asleep Who can forgive me of the pain I've dealt (Levi) Awaken me Away from me My soul's asleep I need a savior and it's not myself This was a test and I'm sleeping on the job And then this high wasn't everything I thought

[Around the late 2080s, new trailblazing developments by emergent private drug companies surfaced, claiming they had produced artificially-engineered, less-addictive versions of drugs such as cocaine and heroin, and by the 2090s, these artificial replacements were legalized. The artificial versions of these drugs are collectively referred to as "smart" drugs, whereas the originals are referred to as "stained" drugs. Because the price of legalized and engineered "smart" drugs are so high, drug kingpins will sell "stained" drugs at a far lower price. Georgia Nottoli's life is that of disarray. She sits in an emergency room as medics rush to save the life of her husband, the powerful drug cartel gangster Art Nottoli, who has been shot by a rival. As the potential inheritor of his drug empire in a misogynist world, she has developed thick skin and a powerful respect from the boys over time. However, recent reluctance and deepseated unsettlement of her family's criminal lifestyle resurfaces in the waning hours of this tragedy...] (Georgia) The pendulum of power swings And the curse of this hour stings Spending a life, for material things Only signals the reaper, the loudness rings And mistress death, she comes And furthers the drowning of lungs Karma collects, it spat from its tongue And I can't feel anything under the sun Am I complicit? Could I have fixed this? He was denied, from a life By strife, and now I miss him I'm nothing but a hypocrite Wealth was always a bottomless pit It fueled every single sin of his And the world never seemed to care about him We purified our vices, why can't we cure The hatred inside us, it's nature's score We lessened other evils now why can't you? Where are you God? I want the final truth Do our sins obscure our love? Is this my punishment from above? If you really exist, you will show yourself And deliver me from this personal hell (Art) Georgia.....He spoke to me I can feel emotions Nothing's truly hopeless I'm aware and focused Tearing down our fortress This is a calling Through a new faith I've been pulled out From an assumed grave I can feel emotions Nothing's truly hopeless I'm aware and focused Tearing down our fortress This is a calling Through a new faith I've been pulled out From an assumed grave I couldn't believe my eyes Darkness enclosed, I could feel it rise I cried out with a name And then it was quashed, by a light It surrounded me and saved me Forgiveness replaced my paining It told me that I'm not done Something inside has changed me I can feel emotions Nothing's truly hopeless I'm aware and focused Tearing down our fortress This is a calling Through a new faith I've been pulled out From an assumed grave I can feel emotions Nothing's truly hopeless I'm aware and focused Tearing down our fortress This is a calling Through a new faith I've been pulled out From an assumed grave This life of crime, I realized Can be stopped, I will not be obliged Cause perfect truth, it will reveal the lies I will no longer have it deified

[Thirty-five year old filmmaker Jeremiah Billings had a hard time finding love. But two years ago he finally met the love of his life, Ashley Barnes, a sufferer of Fenton-Courts Syndrome, a fatal rare blood disease. A year later, they are married. However, a few months in, Ashley's illness takes a terminal turn...] (Jeremiah) Now I can't breathe in We poured in everything Now I lose it all to fate This isn't what we dreamed I find it hard to breathe When the clock's ticking And I lose your embrace To a sinister fate I remember in our first days You took a look at the waves And you singled out the motions You said we're all a part of the chain We're all a special part of The plans of God You said you'd live To see the breath of our first child To see a future And the sands of the hourglass fall Now I can't breathe in We poured in everything Now I lose it all to fate This isn't what we dreamed You never promised anything Except for the now It's all in your vows But now your going to a place Where time has no bounds And lost is found You were always eternal There is a love That is greater than you FEAR I find it hard to breathe When the clock's ticking And I lose your embrace To a sinister fate Now I can't breathe in We poured in everything Now I lose it all to fate This isn't what we dreamed Now I can't breathe in We poured in everything Now I lose it all to fate This isn't what we dreamed The time we've had, it was a gift And I've held you in my arms And told you that I've got you I'd keep you safe from harm But now it comes crumbling down In an instant, this race I can't finish But I'll let go and believe That I'll see you in the end I don't know what to be Other than strong That's what you'd want for me So I'll live on Now I can't breathe in We poured in everything Now I lose it all to fate This isn't what we dreamed Now I can't breathe in We poured in everything Now I lose it all to fate This isn't what we dreamed