In a cyber-space that should have never existed, Maxine Padavich lives out her life as a dweller in her own peace. On the outside of her virtual reality lies a world overcome by technology and androids, child birth is considered a disease, Mothers are murdered, Fathers live in army camps, and no child is ever held by another human being. Maxine hides out in her cyber-space and finds a new life for herself, then she receives a letter and gifts from a boy named Atlas who says he has figured out that she is the brains of the operation behind his entire existence. And who has now decided that he would like to learn the meaning of the Inside.