In a drug-filled 2056 rife with organ failure, a shady biotech company offers transplants for a price, but repossess the body parts when recipients fail to pay.
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.