Alex is among us. An office rat during daytime, he spends sleepless nights playing his favorite MMO game: a familiar, predictable globe which is about to collapse. A new virtual universe occurs to replace it, aggressively devouring others: the Crystal Sphere.

Alex gets involved with testing new technologies which promise to revolutionize video gaming. Fitted out using a neuroimplant which provides a 100% authenticity of experience, he has to survive in the Crystal Sphere against all odds.

What is he turning out to be? Can he become yet another expendable check subject-or the first player to transcend reality?