Eight and a half years later , a construction worker named Emmet Brickowski comes across a woman named Wyldstyle , who is searching for something after hours at Emmet 's construction site .
Eight and a half years later , an ordinary construction worker named Emmet Brickowski from Bricksburg , a city run as a corporate state under the Octan Corporation , comes across a woman named Wyldstyle who searches for something after hours at Emmet 's construction site .