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 & finances with their universal operating system resulting in one online identity & 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