Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Project Utopia begins when a patient suffering from severe amnesia shows up at a psychiatric hospital—the only clue to his identity being a foreboding message scrawled on a piece of paper in his pocket. He begins seeing a shadowy presence form around certain select individuals, i.e. staff and patients alike, and while the sight is unnerving and scary, he discovers that he also has abilities that control both technology and the neural circuits in the people he touches. He is both awed and frightened by these newfound abilities, and he learns to utilize them as he tries to determine what has happened to him and who or what is behind it all.