Shabbat Dinner is boring as usual for William Shore. His mother has invited two crazy hippies and their son and is doing her best to show off, his father is drunk and berating their oddball guests, and he doesn't have much in common with their son Virgo. That is, until Virgo tells him that he has just come out as gay.

The Internet has evolved into its own physical space. A group of Cyberpunchers (people who make a living breaking into the restricted parts of the Internet) are hired to go on a rescue mission into the core of Cyberspace--Terminal X.

Separated for the summer, the only way for a teenage girl to communicate with her boyfriend is over the Internet.