From the 1940s to the 1960s the foundations of our modern age were laid by cybernetics, system theory, multimedia art, and new concepts in psychology and military research. They formed the basis for the global system of networked machines whose essence is shaped by mathematics, logic, and binary code. Between 1978 and 1995, the USA was shaken by a series of bomb attacks targeting academics and managers of large airlines, prompting the FBI to dub the person behind them the 'Unabomber'. In 1996, the FBI arrested Ted Kaczynski, a former mathematics professor. The film shows the designers, engineers, and agents of this system. One of them dropped out and tried to stop the machines. In the end, mathematics was turned into art. But at what price.