该剧改编自LINE WEBTOON台湾作者Pony的同名漫画，故事围绕活了万年的琪琪以交易时间延续生命，而见证无数人为欲望付出各种代价：女雕刻师用禁术复制前男友并囚禁；宇航员出任务遇难，与外星生物小白透过漫画交流并找到重返地球的希望；流浪汉启汉与面具人交易他的未来，最终困在无限循环的“今天”。最终琪琪使用神秘黑盒子让身患绝症的女儿生命可停留在最幸福的瞬间。

　　拉瓦的母亲把他送到海边和他年轻的叔叔住在一起，他马上开始工作。一天，他发现一个人被冲上了岸。在医院里，Wut医生诊断出这个人患有健忘症，他的叔叔自愿将Lava作为他的看护人。熔岩命名他为波，并重新分配他所有的职责给陌生人。Wave对体力劳动的挑剔和无能令人惊讶，暗示着它过去的骄纵。　　Lava's mother sends him to live with his young uncle by the beach and he's immediately put to work. One day, he finds a man washed up on the shore. At the hospital, Dr. Wut diagnoses the man with amnesia and his uncle volunteers Lava as his caretaker. Lava names him Wave and reassigns all his duties to the stranger. Wave is surprisingly fussy and inept at manual labor, hinting at a pampered past.

　　“Run” follows the individual storylines of migrants as they seek to avoid police as well as those of locals and tourists who get caught up in the events through the course of a day, culminating in a violent escalation.