Oliver Beake developed something of an online following making so-called ‘day in the life’ videos about his featureless corporate job. After being laid off, Oliver struggles to find new employment and so he resorts to making his videos once again, only this time—and unbeknownst to his viewers, he is working a fake job at a fictional multinational conglomerate he has ‘created’ for this purpose: IBR Glennfield BrilCo.

Oliver’s success eventually attracts both a Hollywood producer and investment from a private equity firm. As Oliver loses control of the project, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between his simulated life and his former, ‘real’ one. He soon finds himself in a hyperreality that would make a French postmodernist blush, and it’s all of his own making.