Set in the near-future, mind-control technology has taken society by storm and a
multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows gamers to control human death row
prisoners in mass-scale deathmatches, if an inmate lives through 30 matches then
he wins his freedom. Simon (Logan Lerman) controls Kable (Gerard Butler) the on-line
champion of the game having won 27 matches and lived through them all, with his every
move tracked by millions, his ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and
independence by defeating the game's mastermind (Michael C. Hall) through launching
an attack on the system that has imprisoned him.