When people think of the hip hop life, they think of the players - the men who shape the music and the blinged-out lifestyle that comes with success. The fact is the hip hop life is different for the women involved: the spouses, girlfriends or artists trying to define themselves in a world where men are still calling the shots.

Jeffrey Dahmer (Evan Peters) gelang es dank seines unauffälligen Auftretens, über Jahre hinweg sein Treiben als bestialischer Serienkiller aufrechtzuerhalten – auch wenn er immer wieder mit der Polizei und gar dem FBI in Konflikt kam, so blieb sein bestialisches Treiben verborgen. Zwischen 1978 und 1991 tötete er in Milwaukee mindestens 16 junge Männer, bevor ihm das Handwerk gelegt werden konnte.

Nanotechnology researcher Wang Miao is taken to the Joint Operations Center by police officer Shi Qiang, who's investigating the mysterious suicide wave among scientists worldwide, and recruited to sneak into an organization called the Frontiers of Science to help the investigation. When Wang Miao is contacted by the leader of the organization, Shen Yufei, she introduces him to a sophisticated VR video game called Three-Body, but soon he discovers that it's more than just a game.