In a bid to transcend disease, aging, and death, humanity has abandoned the real world by uploading consciousness into a virtual replica called Avalon. Malcolm Alter stays behind, believing it's his duty to reconcile with the bittersweet transience of life—that it's the crucible in which the human spirit is forged.
But when Malcolm's conscious mind is imprisoned within a collapsing virtual matrix by an old adversary, he must find a way back to his real body before it's murdered—or remain trapped forever in The Void.