When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world´s most powerful internet company, she feels she´s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users´ personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can´t believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public...