In the near future, bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world are stung. They are immediately snatched up by ominous figures in suits, interrogated separately in neutral IKEA-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the Internet. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined.
