故事描述绰号「鬼魂」的主人公James St. Patrick（Omari Hardwick）不甘心只当一个小小的夜总会老板——他打算依靠自己的夜总会白手起家，在纽约城建立一个庞大的娱乐帝国并使之成为世界财富五百强企业。但是他面临一个问题：他除了白道身份之外还有一个黑道身份：一个大型贩毒集团中的大毒枭。当他计划离开犯罪世界专心做生意时，他的婚姻、家庭和事业全都受到了威胁，这迫使他不得不思考自己的人生道路。
Prisoner follows a principled young prison officer escorting a dangerous, high-value prisoner to court to testify against his elite crime syndicate. Throughout the journey, their relationship twists and turns, with the stakes escalating as the crime syndicate stops at nothing to track them down.
The series is set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, amid misguided corporate cultures, moony innovation labs and cutthroat private high schools. It is centered around a rift between a self-appointed “inventor of the future” tech CEO and his self-serving “performance psychologist”, who are engulfed in a scandal sparked by the exploitation of personal data.
