The main points of the story coincide with the Daft Punk tracks on their Discovery album. On an alien planet, a band is playing to a packed audience; keyboardist Octave, guitarist Arpegius, drummer Baryl, and bass player Stella. ("One More Time"). A military force invades the planet and kidnaps the band ("Aerodynamic"). A space pilot called Shep is awoken from a dream about Stella by a distress call about the kidnapping, and pursues the kidnappers through a wormhole, where he crashes on Earth ("Digital Love").
The band are taken to an underground facility, where their memories are removed to disks and their blue skin changed to make them resemble humans. They are fitted with mind-control devices hidden in sunglasses ("Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"). Their captor, Earl de Darkwood, poses as their manager and presents them as a new band called The Crescendolls, who take the world by storm.("Crescendolls"). Meanwhile, Shep finds his way to civilization and discovers what has happened to the band ("Nightvision").
During a stadium concert, Shep flies in with a jet pack and fires a beam at each band member, freeing all of them from the mind control except Stella. In the escape, Shep is mortally wounded, and Darkwood's bodyguards are revealed to be androids ("Superheroes").
Stella is taken to a âGold Record Awardâ ceremony, where the Crescendolls win the Gold Record. Baryl is concealed in the audience and frees Stella with the beam, and they make their escape with Octave's help ("High Life"). The band returns to Shep, who reveals their true identities before he dies ("Something About Us"). They bury Shep and his spirit rises into space. While driving away, they find themselves at Darkwood Manor, and decide to investigate ("Voyager").
They reach Darkwood's mansion, in which they find a journal revealing Darkwood's plans. He has been kidnapping musicians from various worlds to acquire 5,555 gold records, with which he can rule the universe. Darkwood captures them and attempts to sacrifice Stella to complete the ritual, but they manage to throw the final gold record into a chasm, and Darkwood follows it into the abyss. ("Veridis Quo"). The band travels back to the record company to retrieve the memory disks. While escaping from the building, Octave is tasered by a guard, and his skin reverts to its blue state ("Short Circuit").
The authorities find Shep's ship and mount an operation to return the Crescendolls back to their home planet ("Face to Face"). On the way back to the wormhole, Darkwood's spirit appears and attacks the ship. Shep's spirit also appears and fights Darkwood, which frees them. The band returns to their home planet to great acclaim, and a statue of Shep is erected ("Too Long"). At the end, it is implied that the whole thing was the dream of a young boy, inspired by the Discovery album.
Where did they reach?
Darkwood's mansion