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At 10:04 A.M. on what would become known as "Day 1," Jack is shopping for new placemats. He's the "house Dad," having lost his job at MediaTronics after learning that his boss, Dan Gross, was cheating and stealing. Jack, ignoring the advice of his attorney who told him to get out of the company fast, tells a board member, who is in on the scheme, and Jack is summarily fired for "gross negligence." Jack's wife, Julia, is vice president of another computer-based company, Xymos, and Jack watches as she spends more time at work and grows more distant. Jack soon believes that she's having an affair, though he'll discover that she's become overly involved with a project at work.
Julia's company has a Department of Defense contract to produce airborne cameras. Large prototypes are easily shot down so Xymos decides to create micro-sized cameras that will "swarm." The problem...
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