Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) starts his day off like every other day - get up, get dressed, find out that he's eating too much of this or that and that he can't get bacon and has to eat something that he doesn't want. Then he has to find out that he can't find the answers to his questions, which no one else seems to have. They just seem to be fine with going through their lives, why is it that he is different? And he has these dreams about boats and things that come into his head.
The world that Lincoln lives in is self-contained. It has to be, since the outside world is contaminated. Every once in a while, a survivor is pulled in from the outside, and they have to help to train them to do even the most basic of tasks. Yet still, even years later, these people keep coming in. Where are all these survivors coming from? How do they continue to survive, without being overcome by the contamination? Why does no one know? Why does no one care?
Only McCord (Steve Buscemi) will talk to Lincoln, but that is a risk in itself, because he works in maintenance, and isn't usually allowed inside, except to clean up from a contamination. Because of the risk, they get to talk, but even McCord won't answer his questions.
Jordan Two Delta (Scarlett Johansson) will listen, but they aren't allowed to be too close, and she doesn't have the same questions, so it's not the same. So they just talk about going to The Island - the goal of everyone inside, as they hope one day they will win the lottery and be chosen as the next to head to The Island to help repopulate the last unpolluted place on the planet.
One day, however, Lincoln follows a bug that he found into the upper area of the complex, only to find the last lottery winner - and he's not going to The Island. He is having his organs harvested. And suddenly everything becomes clear. Since the last lottery winner was none other than Jordan, Lincoln knows that he needs to get her out and get out fast, so they manage to escape into the outside world, and there they meet up with McCord at a bar, and before getting killed he gets them on a train to Los Angeles.
It seems that in Los Angeles is one of the answers to who they are, for that is the home of one Tom Lincoln, who commissioned the creation of Lincoln Six Echo, a clone who will be used to harvest organs when they are needed. And when the time came, Lincoln would become the winner of the lottery and be headed to The Island himself. But before that can happen, they must expose what is actually happening.
While the world knows that the clone operation exists, they believe that the clones are vegetative - that they have no brain function and are not aware. If they see Tom Lincoln and Lincoln Six Echo together, they will know what is happening. Once the operation finds out what is going on, they set out to get Lincoln, but they end up taking out Tom Lincoln instead. Woops. That's the problem with creating such good clones.
As they are unaware of their mistake, Lincoln and Jordan sneak back into the facility and break things wide open, allowing the rest of the clones to get out into the real world for the first time ever.
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexuality and language.
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