In the year 2012, Earth has evolved into a hyper-aestheticized dystopia where society is strictly stratified by physical appearance. A wealthy, obsessively beautiful elite rules over a world defined by superficiality, relegating the disabled, disfigured, and "ugly" to a marginalized underclass. The film follows a bumbling terrorist cell known as Acción Mutante, comprised of these societal outcasts, who wage a violent, often incompetent war against the cult of perfection, eventually leading them from the grit of Earth to the desolate mining colonies of outer space.

The film depicts a world governed by oligarchical corporations and a media-saturated culture that treats physical fitness and plastic surgery as moral imperatives. Earth serves as the polished, albeit shallow, political and social center, while the outer planets—specifically the mining world of Axturias—function as resource-extraction zones populated by the lower classes. This divergence from our reality is rooted in a 1990s "cyber-trash" aesthetic, where advanced space travel coexists with grimy, rusted technology and pervasive social decay.

While the film’s prediction of interplanetary colonization by 2012 was wildly optimistic, its social commentary on the commodification of beauty and the rise of a "celebrity-industrial complex" proved far more prescient. The depicted technologies, such as satirical futuristic commercials and high-concept media stunts, mirror the modern reality of influencer culture and the polarizing nature of identity-based political movements. As fewer than three analysis-quality sources focused specifically on technological forecasting were found, much of the predictive comparison is inferred from the film's heavy emphasis on the intersection of media and social status.