Los Angeles, 2035. The city has been rebuilt once already. Nobody's entirely sure what's being built now.

Caden Voss is a graduate student in Santa Monica who does certain kinds of technical work that he doesn't advertise. He's good at it. He knows he's good at it. He also knows that being good at something and knowing what to do with it are different problems, and he's been deferring the second one for a while.

When the right kind of problem appears — the kind he can't leave alone — he goes after it. What he builds in the process turns out to be more than he intended. Where it goes is not where he put it.

By the time he understands what he's inside, the lines between his professional life and his personal one have dissolved in ways he didn't authorize and can't undo. The people in his proximity — a neighbor, a classmate, a friend of a friend — didn't sign up for what proximity to him now means. The system watching him doesn't distinguish between principals and bystanders. It just watches.

Someone knows his name. He doesn't know theirs.

Null Witness is a serialized thriller about the surveillance state we've already agreed to, what it becomes, and the coldness of a system that flawlessly observes analyzes humans without distinguishing their humanity.