Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.

V oddaljeni zahodni Avstraliji živita ostarela in odtujena brata Colin in Les, ki sta med seboj v vojni. Vsak zase redita svojo čredo ovac, in čeprav živita drug ob drugem kot soseda, sta v resnici svetove narazen.

Lepega dne pri Lesovem plemenskem in nagrajenem ovnu odkrijejo redko in za drobnico smrtonosno bolezen. Krajevne oblasti odredijo »očiščenje« celotne doline. Brata se odzoveta vsak na svoj način. Medtem ko se Colin na videz podredi veterinarski inšpekciji, a jo v resnici prelisiči, se Les postavi za okope svoje hiše in jezno kljubuje … Na kocki je veliko: družinska sprava, družinsko premoženje in plemenska čreda ovac.

When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.