Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future (2025)

In the neon-drenched sprawl of Shanghai and Soho, veterans of Britain's J-Squad work as corporate assets to finance their own obsolescence. Their mandatory cybernetic upgrades require constant, ruinous maintenance, binding them to mercenary contracts. Madi Preston, deep in debt and exhausted, accepts a clandestine retrieval job to clear her and her sister’s ledgers. The data she extracts is not a simple corporate secret. Its nature immediately makes her a target, severing her from former allies and employers. Now pursued across continents by the very entities that built her, Madi’s flight is a solitary scramble through rain-slicked streets and monitored transit hubs, with every system potentially compromised.