
The scene then cuts to a different time (once again, it's unspecified how long after the contagion), six people, known as "Electro-fishers", dressed in advanced gear called "helmettals" begin scavenging throughout the city, looking for food and other supplies for their village. According to the narrator, it happened "long before she was born". Though some humans survived, they're all trapped in the city and still under threat from the safeguard. As a result, all humans were declared "illegal residents" by the safeguard, and therefore an extermination order was issued against everyone. Humans controlled the robots, known as the safeguard, that worked in the city, until a mysterious contagion spread throughout. The film opens with a young woman in a small village narrating about the events that lead up to the beginning of Blame! At an unspecified (and therefore, unknown) time, a massive city was created that eclipsed the entire world and then some.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.

With her companions dead and all escape routes blocked, the only thing that can save her now is the sudden arrival of Kiri the Wanderer, on his quest for the Net Terminal Genes, the key to restoring order to the world. A girl named Zuru goes on a journey to find food for her village, only to inadvertently cause doom when an observation tower senses her and summons a Safeguard pack to eliminate the threat. In a tiny corner of the city, a little enclave known as the Electro-Fishers is facing eventual extinction, trapped between the threat of the Safeguard and dwindling food supplies. Now humanity has lost access to the city's controls, and is hunted down and purged by the defense system known as the Safeguard. An "infection" in the past caused the automated systems to spiral out of order, resulting in a multi-leveled city structure that replicates itself infinitely in all directions.

In the distant technological future, civilization has reached its ultimate Net-based form.

One day, a group of human scavengers come across a strange man named Killy, who may be the key to humanity's survival. In the distant future, humans are declared "illegal residents" and hunted to near extinction by murderous robots.
