You are the surveillance.
The system watches through your eyes. When you are always under surveillance, your behaviour changes. Everyone becomes alike. The zeitgeist becomes uniformity.
Now everyone acts, looks, dresses and expresses the same, and talks the same stilted language. You obey the system. You don’t dare be different. Deviate from the zeitgeist and be punished. The system keeps you the same. The system keeps you safe.
Some have managed to escape. Dared to rebel. The system has responded.
T7 is a Controller, able to take control of anyone at will. Hunting down the runners who have managed to defy.
But when T7 hunts down the latest runner, they discover the true reason for the zeitgeist.
Now it’s time for T7 to choose.
Will they overthrow the rebels to keep the system safe?
Or will they take back control, and decide to break the system for good?
Will they obey?
Or defy?