A restless computer programmer discovers that the world he knows is an elaborate simulation designed to keep humanity docile, and that he may be the one person capable of breaking it. Guided by a group of rebels who see reality for what it truly is, he must decide whether ignorance really is bliss. What follows is a genre-defining descent into a war fought as much in the mind as in the streets.
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.