In the future, life between the digital and physical world intermingles like never before. The boundary of technology and humanity has been stretched beyond imagination with lives being led in both the electronic and physical worlds. With the melding of man and machine - a new cybernetic level of existence is being created - An existence that continues to redefine mankind.

Major Motoko Kusanagi and the officers of Section 9 are highly skilled and trained to deal with criminal activity in both the real and online worlds, but when the lines between two realities collide, a series of events will set in motion their most chilling and dangerous case of all. The fight for the future of humanity begins now.