: Inside the simulation, Flynne controls an avatar of her brother and is guided by a voice (later revealed to be Aelita West ) to kidnap a woman named Mariel from Buckingham Palace.

: Burton is sent a futuristic, lensless VR headset to beta-test for a mysterious Colombian company. Flynne takes his place and enters a "SIM" set in a highly realistic 2099 London .

The series, based on the novel by William Gibson and produced by the creators of Westworld , follows (played by Chloë Grace Moretz), a talented gamer living in a small Blue Ridge Mountains town in 2032. She supports her veteran brother, Burton, and their ailing mother by working at a 3D printing shop and occasionally "power leveling" for her brother in virtual reality (VR) simulations. Plot Summary