This is a world in which new technologies, without even getting on the streets, give rise to new types of crime. This is a world in which computer viruses acquire a personality. A world in which consciousness and the environment have merged to such an extent that reality is constantly redone, destroyed, and reborn. And the most advanced demiurges of modern times are the Artisans, a semi-legal group of hackers and pirates who take images from the minds of other people and turn them into something that can be packaged, sold and consumed. All the Artisans are already so hooked on virtual reality that many forever go into artificial worlds, leaving their body. But now the network has become dangerous, it has a strange virus with a true mind, which can collapse any system and mutilate the human brain. It was created by the Artificers, and now they will have to stop their own creation.