It's the year 2070. In an extremely competitive society, football is the favored sport and the CIMA government uses it to train and manipulate the population. Dr. Bormand, director of a prestigious research center serving CIMA, has designed chips that can be implanted into football players to anticipate the reactions of their opponents a few seconds ahead. It's known as synchronicity. The problem is that the chips haven't been sufficiently tested, and their side effects are terrible.