Questa serie si addentra nelle straordinarie conseguenze di persone comuni che acquisiscono improvvisamente superpoteri. Ogni individuo ottiene abilità legate ai suoi desideri più profondi, ma questa nuova forza porta con sé complessi dilemmi etici. I personaggi devono confrontarsi con le ripercussioni delle loro azioni, dove aiutare alcuni danneggia inevitabilmente altri, navigando in un mondo in cui i confini tra giusto e sbagliato si offuscano.
When Aman Sen gets off a plane from London to Delhi he discovers that he, and everyone on his flight, now has extraordinary abilities corresponding to their innermost desires. Aman wants to heal the planet but with each step he takes, he finds helping some means harming others.
In 2020, eleven years after the passengers of flight BA142 from London to Delhi developed extraordinary abilities corresponding to their innermost desires, the world is overrun with supers. Some use their powers for good, others for evil, and some just want to pulverize iconic monuments and star in their own reality show. But now, from New York to Tokyo, someone is hunting down supers, killing heroes and villains both, and it's up to the Unit to stop them...