Vivian Cross, a brilliant MIT algorithm pioneer, is reduced to a decorative housewife by her arrogant CEO husband Julian Blackwood, who steals her core coding research to power his billion-dollar defense tech firm. When she signs a demeaning divorce settlement for cash and partial stock, Julian sneaks surveillance devices into her humble Brooklyn apartment to hunt for hidden proof of her original work. Cornered by his illegal monitoring, reproductive coercion and threats to void their divorce agreement over an unexpected pregnancy, Vivian teams up with a sharp attorney and rival tech CEO Noah Chen to build a full legal evidence chain. She secretly records Julian’s manipulative confessions, obtains internal corporate emails proving he erased her research credit, and uncovers his history of controlling former partners. At the company’s critical risk committee hearing, Vivian presents unassailable original coding archives instead of leaking confidential business data. The board suspends Julian amid a federal defense contract audit. Finally, Vivian secures independent research authority, major equity and full authorship of her algorithms, reclaiming her identity, career and bodily autonomy on her own terms.
