Verity Jane is hired to test a digital assistant that is accessed through a pair of ordinary glasses for a San Francisco start-up. One hundred years in the future and a different timeline, Wilf Netherton works amid survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His employer can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity has become his boss's current project, which will lead to their own version of the jackpot.