In the year 2108, upper Los Angeles citizen and systems engineer Dresden Walker learns his mother has contracted a sudden and rare cancer. In order to attempt to save her, he spends his entire fortune and is deported from the Utopia in which he lives to the lower city -- old Los Angeles. He is given an opportunity by the omnipresent PXL mega-corporation to assist them with "unauthorized surveillance" of terrorist gangs and organized crime syndicates who intend to disrupt the utopian citizens way of life. Underpowered and ill-prepared he learns someone is setting him up and knows his every move. As he simultaneously attempts to fulfill his obligation in order to save his dying mother and solve the mystery of who is putting him and his mission in danger -- he integrates into the dark underbelly of the unfamiliar cyberpunk cityscape and learns a horrible truth of who is really is and what he was really born to do. In this open-world RPG meets action/psychological thriller, every choice Dresden makes changes the future, causing his existence and the safety of his friends to hang in the balance.