When a routine procedure gone wrong renders a gaming billionaire brain dead, his stunned family and friends cryopreserve and digitally transfer his consciousness into an immortal tech-driven existence.

When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.

When disgraced doctor Daisuke Ido finds the detached head of a cyborg woman who has no memories, he names her Alita and attaches the head to a powerful new body that allows the reborn cyborg to track down those who prey on the weak.