When digital guerrillas revolt against corporate ownership of a virtual world, one person-turned-program and his closest friends stand between freedom and deletion.
When Johnathan Dart, digital artist and world-builder, falls in love with a digital sapience living inside Irokai, the virtual world created by the Tadashiissei Corporation, his friends are skeptical of his intention to upload himself into their system. Adam doubts that the soul can survive a destructive copy, and Julia doubts that Tadashiissei's corporate policies are anything close to user-friendly. Johnathan does what he can to assure his friends that all will be well, but in the heart of the corporation that owns Irokai and everything within it, a storm is brewing. A group of revolutionaries seeking independence for Irokai from its corporate creators is mounting an ever-escalating series of attacks on the system, and Tadashiissei's management is proving they may be willing to destroy Irokai to save it. Can John and his digital lover, Mitsuko, find a way to stop the hackers from deleting their home without convincing Tadashiissei to delete them?