A jobless agoraphobe, addicted to the man-made worlds of a distant descendant of the internet, has become targeted for assassination by forces beyond her understanding. With nobody she could really call an enemy or a friend, she must face the dangers of "meatspace", and survive a conspiracy that has invisibly ruled her entire life. An agent of the city's all-seeing secret police finds himself blackmailed with the lives of the unborn children of his long-dead wife. Pushed to the limits by his deceit and his past, how far is he willing to go to save his legacy? Follow their lives as a string of catastrophes threatens not only themselves, but everything they think they know about the city!
Young? Unemployed? Don't worry, the City has your back! With Newton's impressive humanitarian foundation, the government ensures that the only way someone could be homeless is by choice, with provision of your very own apartment.
Sure, it's not a *nice* apartment, and the automeal only has three recipes, and the clothes-recycling printer is usually broken, and the toilet's also the sink...in fact, a cynic might almost think that the plan was to encourage people to move out!