Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady (Jonathan Scarfe) begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music company executive. With the help of best friend, science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick himself (Shea Whigam) and a mysterious woman named Silvia (Alanis Morissette), Nick finds himself drawn into a dangerous political-mystical conspiracy of cosmic proportions. The story is set in an alternate reality America circa 1985 under the authoritarian control of President Fremont, a Nixon-like clone (Scott Wilson). 伯克利唱片店店员尼克布·雷迪遇到了不明物体VALIS，于是开始了一次次奇异的经历。他了离开了家人搬到了洛杉矶，在这里他成为一名成功的唱片公司的主管。在最好的朋友菲利普·迪克以及一个神秘的名叫西尔维娅的女人的帮助下，他发现自己陷入了企图划分宇宙的异常危险的政治阴谋。
