Leon Kruger is a hacker and ex-mercenary down on his luck when he meets Six Josephson, an enigmatic girl who had been implanted with the latest hacker hardware. Somewhat reluctantly he gets involved with her and finds that she drags him deeper and deeper into a world of intrigue, mayhem, and murder. She seduces him into also getting a lattice implant, but all is not as it seems. The Guild and the Liddell Corporation play dangerous games with them before luring them into an ambush which leaves Six seemingly dead and Leon running for his life.
Leon meets up with people from a resistance movement who scam him out of his body and into an obsolete mecha where he has to work as a security guard for the shady Thaddeus Garvin. He befriends Minuet, a sexbot with a human ghost, who helps him with his plan to get a new and more permanent body.
The rest of the adventure involves break-ins into the most powerful corporate tower, surprises and rescues and general mayhem and destruction, teaching Leon, Six and Minuet that no shell is permanent if you wanted to survive.
