They can break any code and get inside any system. They are often still in their teens and already under surveillance by the authorities. They are the Hackers. Zero cool - real name Dade Murphy - is a legend among his peers. In 1988 he single-handedly crashed 1,507 computers on Wall street ans was forbidden by law to touch another keyboard until his 18th birthday. It's been seven years without a byte..and he's hungry. Kate Libby, handle Acid Burns, has a souped up lap-top that can do 0 to 60 on the infobahn in a nanosecond. When the two collide, the battle of the sexes goes into hard drive. But all bets are off when master hacker The Plague frames Dade, Kate and their friends in a diabolical industrial conspiracy. Now they are the ones who cane prevent a catastrophe....unlike any the world has ever seen..