Hazel Green, wife of billionaire tech CEO Byron Gogol, escapes from the Hub, a massive virtual reality complex where they lived together for 10 years without leaving. She hitches a ride with a radio DJ who drops her off. Hazel, fearing she is being tracked, runs into a strip club and steals some clothes. Lyle, an employee close to her husband, finds Hazel and in the ensuing encounter she chops off some of his fingers then flees. Hazel hitches a ride to her dad's hometown, where she encounters a stranger receiving a call from Byron, informing her that Byron has implanted a device called "Made For Love" in her brain that tracks her sight, emotions, and whereabouts. Hazels runs into her dad's home where she finds him having sex with a sex doll named Diane. In shock, she faints and falls over.

Flashback: 24 hours before escaping, Hazel's every move is being tracked by Byron's devices. She attends Gogol Inc's board meeting, where Byron reveals he knows she is lying about being happy.

Hazel wakes up and tells her father, Herb, that she wants to leave Byron. She leaves the house with a shotgun, and encounters Lyle again. After failing to convince her to come with him, she shoots him several times, leaving him injured. Herb picks Hazel up and they try to find Herb's old plane to help her escape. They go to a bar called The Spotted Rose where Herb joins a mechanical bull-riding contest against the new owners of the plane - if he wins, Hazel can borrow the plane. Unfortunately, Herb is thrown off the bull and the two head back to Herb's house in defeat, only to find Byron and several security detail waiting for them. Hazel walks in and tells Byron, "I want a divorce."

Flashback: Hazel loses consciousness, shattering a glass. Byron's lackeys shave off a lock of her hair and surgically implant the Made for Love chip in her brain.

Byron argues with Hazel about her indecisiveness and how he loves her even if she never fully loved him. Hazel sees through his manipulation, and when she asks to be able to take walks and smell things, he offers to make improvements on the Hub. She goes on a walk and finds the bartender from The Spotted Rose. She asks the bartender to masturbate while looking at her, which Byron witnesses via the chip. Byron leaves Herb's house in a fit of rage but once in bed, he watches her on his phone.

Flashback: Hazel and Byron are interviewed for an episode of Weekend America where viewers learn more about the Hub, the secret little virtual world where recluse Byron has hidden away with Hazel since their first date (which ended in elopement). An interview is also made with Dr. Hodeck who reveals the chip implant was meant to help collect data on animals' emotions. When Byron unveils a commercial, starring him and a virtual likeness of Hazel, for the chip that will allow a couple to merge their consciousness, Hazel is visibly unsettled by the idea. It's also revealed that Dr. Hodeck's test subject, a dolphin named Zelda, helped Hazel escape the Hub by showing her a secret panel in the pool.

In an effort to convince Hazel to come back to the Hub, Byron seeks to build a smell cube for her, and sends his assistant Bennett out to provide Hazel with some sample scents. Herb demands Hazel pay rent to continue staying with him. To make ends meet, Hazel steals phones from unwitting Yoga students and pawns them. She encounters her old friend Bangles at the pawn shop just as Bennett arrives to have Hazel smell the samples. Bangles and Hazel force Bennett to leave. They go back to Herb's home and after drinking alcohol, they taunt Byron by having Bangles moon Hazel, which Byron sees through her eyes. Meanwhile, Dr. Hodeck tries to find Zelda, fearing Byron did something to the dolphin that inadvertently helped Hazel escape.

Flashback: During Hazel's college years, Byron finds Hazel scamming college students by selling fraudulent tickets. He asks her out on a first date, which is in a mobile virtual reality cube. After awing her by showing her the capabilities of the cube, he convinces her to marry him and to leave with him on the same night.

At the recommendation of Bangles, Hazel and her father go to a bowling alley to meet with a divorce lawyer who owes her cousin a favor. After much hesitation, Hazel reveals her husband is the billionaire tech mogul, Byron Gogol. The lawyer believes the chip in her brain is their ace, and physical proof he did something to her without her consent but seeing all this, Byron quickly hacks into the bowling alley TVs (showing incriminating photos of the lawyer) and after a quick phone call, the lawyer runs off. Byron commands Bennett to implant a chip into his head so he and Hazel can fully merge, even though Dr. Hodeck had previously warned that would kill her. Dr. Hodeck makes a deal with her ex-husband to sell the chip, the most valuable, revolutionary piece of software and she recruits Lyle to help find Hazel - they find her collapsed on a road after the apparent merge.

Flashback: Dr Hodeck presents the revolutionary application of a cranial chip implant via data collected from Zelda. Her excitement over the possibilities of animal communication is stopped when Byron insists the chip would be better used in human application so there would be no secrets or lies between people.

After telling Dr. Hodeck and Lyle that she now does not want the chip removed (as per the lawyer's advice), she is ultimately let go and Dr. Hodeck decides to give money to Lyle, who had his entire identity erased by Byron for apparently helping Hazel earlier. When Dr. Hodeck tries to quit, Byron traps her in the "pasture cube". Feeling betrayed and frustrated, Byron runs several beach simulations to try and figure out how to win over Hazel before realizing he needs to experience the real world, despite his fear and loathing of it. After Hazel gets upset that her father didn't care she was missing for hours, he brings an old flame to help her - Sister Judiff. The newly converted nun promises to get information but they can never see each other so Byron won't know who she is and try to scare her off. Hazel and her father go to visit her mother's grave and find it's gone because her father sold the burial plot.

Hazel gets a job cleaning bathrooms at the bowling alley, hoping the things she sees repulses Byron. He's not actually watching her though because he insisted on trying to be normal while out in the real world, and got himself cornered by paparazzi. Lyle takes Bennett hostage and tries to bargain for his job and his identity back. Byron initially accepts his deal before leading him into the pasture cube to join Dr. Hodeck. Hazel convinces his dad to take his "synthetic companion" out on a real date. Byron gives a live press conference to the paparazzi and makes sure the TVs at the restaurant are tuned into his announcement about wanting to connect on a personal level. Hazel gets a chance to fly the plane her father built and sold, if only to feel a little taste of freedom. When Hazel and her father go home, they're greeted by one of Byron's drones - that drops off divorce papers.

Flashback: For their anniversary, Hazel cautiously suggests the two of them go out to see a concert by her old favorite band, Warpaint. Byron hesitates and she backpedals but he quickly agrees. She is initially excited for a chance to leave the Hub and finally interact with the real world but finds he created a virtual replica of the concert venue into a cube, and hired the band. She offers a strained smile while he covers his ears, not liking the music.

At Byron's request, Hazel meets him in person to sign the divorce papers but she picks the location - the local Sunrise Diner. He tries to argue for her to come back to the Hub, claiming things are better in his artificial, digital perfection than out in the real world but she is adamant she was imprisoned with no choices in her life. They go back and forth with him offering to be vulnerable and surprising them both with how much he lets loose. She still wants a divorce and he offers one last plea. Judiff and Herb head to the diner to spy on them and overhear Byron revealing to Hazel that her father has pancreatic cancer and if she goes back with him, he can save her father with his technology. She initially doesn't believe him and meets with her dad back home to celebrate her divorce with drinks. In the end, Hazel drugs her father and takes him and his things with her to the Hub where Byron is waiting for her.