Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel. A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills' body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength. The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first.
BUT NOT FOR ME IS A FILM ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR FULFILLMENT THROUGH ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, THE LINES WE DRAW AS WE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE OURSELVES, AND THE UNDERLYING TRUTHS THAT ULTIMATELY CONNECT US. 关于自我、人生、艺术、以及爱情。