Sadie aspires to become a pro gamer in the world’s only fully immersive VR MMORPG. Only the world is more real than she knows and elite players physically travel to cyberspace to play instead of using VR gear. When her mother is kidnapped within the game, Sadie is sucked into cyberspace with no way to log out and an ultimatum from the kidnapper, and creator of the game—return an in-game item her parents stole or see virtual reality collapse, with the people inside it.