In the harsh reality of a future human colony on Niflheim, Mickey Barnes is a "expendable" - a clone worker who is sent on dangerous missions with the expectation that he'll die,
Ionly to be regenerated into a new iteration. As Mickey17, he's assumed dead and replaced, leading to a confrontation with his successor, Mickey18. Forced to co-exist while dodging the colony's rules (which forbid multiple versions of the same expendable), the two Mickeys must come to terms with their expendable nature and confront the corrupt authorities who control their lives and the future of the colony itself.