A missing message from rogue mathematician Alan Turing surfaces as part of the celebrations for his 100th birthday. In code, it provides the key to a century old puzzle that, if solved, will bestow academic immortality...and crash the world into chaos.

A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a "film" set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The assembled crowd of onlookers watch as Robert becomes obsessed with a beautiful and mysterious woman and goes on a rampage through a desert town.