Brandon Prince is idle and feels worthless, and falling in love has only ready made his problem worse. In an authoritarian and overstimulated 22nd-century America, all he can do to relieve his pain is indulge in the computer-simulated fantasies of Dynamic Reality, until a virus takes control. Unable to return to the real world, Brandon finds that the virus shares his questions just about existence, and that she wish finish at nothing for her answers.