La serie se desarrolla en el mismo mundo ficticio de Avatar: la leyenda de Aang. El mundo está separado en cuatro grandes naciones: las Tribus Agua, el Reino Tierra, la Nación del Fuego y los Nómadas del Aire. El enfoque de la serie es el "control" o "dominio", la capacidad de algunos humanos de dominar un elemento asociado con su nación (agua, tierra, fuego y aire), a estos humanos se les llama «maestros». Cabe mencionar que la mayor parte de la población de "Ciudad República" está constituida por no-maestros, personas normales que no pueden dominar ningún elemento.

As the chairman of a successful technology company, Lu Kun often finds himself in large group settings. While he has no problem addressing any number of people, he has incredible difficulty with any sort of direct, physical contact. Suffering from a strange allergy which is only triggered by direct skin-to-skin contact, something as simple as a handshake could prove deadly. Without the ability to directly come into contact with others, Lu Kun is intrigued when he learns a doctor by the name of Fu Yang has created an incredibly lifelike robot companion dubbed Friday.

A reality series testing the human need for companionship under extreme circumstances as each individual learns there are other castaways out there but are unaware of how many, their locations or when they will be rescued. The series follows 12 diverse individuals as they're dropped alone throughout various islets in Indonesia and challenged to survive among washed-up luggage, scattered resources and abandoned structures.