Looking for his next big hire, corporate recruiter Hank Post flies to Austria in pursuit of an elusive programmer known by the code name Empork-German for Upstart. To get his attention, Post comes up with the idea of communicating with emojis. Empork answers back and the Emoji Games are on Things are not what they seem, however, as the Games lead to a shocking revelation that irrevocably bonds the two in an experiment on Artificial Intelligence.