Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in Seattle, an agoraphobic tech worker discovers evidence of a violent criminal offense while assessing an information stream, and also is consulted with resistance and bureaucracy when she tries reporting it to her firm. To get included, she recognizes she should face her greatest anxiety by venturing out of her home and right into the city roads, which are full of protestors in the wake of the city board passing a law limiting the motions of the homeless population.