Set over 300 years in the future, human consciousness has been digitized. People can "resleeve" into new bodies (sleeves) to cheat death. Takeshi Kovacs (played masterfully by Joel Kinnaman), the last of a group of elite rebel soldiers known as Envoys, is imprisoned for centuries. He is offered a chance at freedom by the impossibly wealthy Laurens Bancorp (James Purefoy) to solve the murder of ... Laurens Bancorp himself.