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What happens when you realize that you’re at the mercy of powers greater than yourself? What happens when these powers flex their muscles and, overnight, turn the entire world on its head? What happens when, in a twist of fate, these same powers offer you a lifeline; an invitation into their exclusive club? Do you accept? Join Alex Watson as he enters the darkness of an unseen world, where the "dominant few" do as they please to the "inferior many" that live beneath them. For the insiders, there is unimaginable freedom, wealth, and power.

Twenty years after a global plague, the remnants of civilization struggle to eke out an existence in a world where humanity is secondary to survival. On the outskirts of a once vibrant Rome, Gabriel tends his vineyard. From dawn to dusk, he strives to carve out a living while caring for Bianca, his heavily pregnant wife. Trouble seems a distant memory, until the day he notices their neighbors are not at work in the adjacent fields. A gruesome discovery sparks a chain of events to rival the conflicts Rome witnessed at the height of its power.

Für den Computerspiele-Entwickler Alex Stein geht ein Traum in Erfüllung. Sein gewagtes Projekt, mittels künstlicher Intelligenz und der Steuerung des Menschlichen Nervensystems die virtuelle Realität zu revolutionieren, scheint tatsächlich zu funktionieren. Sein Prototyp erzeugt Simulationen für alle Sinne, die vom realen Leben kaum zu unterscheiden sind. Alex Karriere in der Londoner Computerspiele Firma Realmind Systems entwickelt sich rasant. Doch während er in immer perfektere Simulationen eintaucht, beginnt sein reales Leben auseinanderzufallen.