Simonetta Vespucci escapes from the power of Hiram Bean, her dark energy creator. Due to a feminine mutation in her spiritual programming, she challenges him. Disguised n the persona of Bernadette Garcetti, Simonetta's rogue dark spirit, interacts with her targets and transfers them from their reality into hers. At the point of being murdered, they reappear in their original reality. Her personal mission of sabotage and destruction catches the attention of the FBI and brings Leon Saffulo, a profiler, to the case. When technology cannot explain the phenomenon, he reluctantly works with a retired magician, Maximilian Schultz, who takes him into the simulated individual module (SIM) world, the creation of virtual life from dark energy. Bernadette Garcetti is a Wall Street banker's executive secretary whose life is mired in distortions of subjective social reality. Through Bernadette's perceptions and psychological issues, she uses Simonetta as a facet of her imagination and strategically selects her targets according to their social and illegal crimes. Bernadette and Simonetta confront the assassin spirit, Mars Livingston, and Simonetta's creator, Hiram Bean, whose goal is to destabilize the world social order. Simonetta sabotages his plans. He believes her programming is reversed. She is supposed to persecute "innocents". Instead she has become a spiritual vigilante. In their attempts to terminate her, Hiram and Mars discover she is hiding in the person of Bernadette. When Mars tries to kill her, she escapes into Simonetta's digital world and the realm of her own imagination.