Orwell revisited; A modern European town five years from now; Under the warped guidance of Professor Joseph Knapp the hard-core game players within the notorious Cylinder research faculty become highly volatile as they make incredible breakthroughs into the landscapes of Virtual Reality. The nearer the professor and his team get to the holy grail of the Nobel Prize, the deeper they plunge into emotional chaos. The caretaker Paul Buchanan is the voice who tells this astonishing tale. They say that Buchanan is on a rehabilitation scheme recovering from an undisclosed traumatic event in his past. Used by the research faculty as an experimental rabbit he thinks he is the international rock icon Syd Starwalker, or is he? This is his story.