Seven Arts Entertainment Inc.,an independent motion picture company

Neuromancer

SYNOPSIS

Case is a low level hustler living out his last days on the streets of the future Tokyo underground. A talented thief who broke into high security computer systems by directly linking his brain into them, he was injected with a poison which rendered him unable to interface into cyberspace. Unable to work, Case embarks on a self-destructive path of drug addiction and double dealings, waiting for the local crime lord to collect on money and time that doesn’t exist. Enter a shady businessman named Armitage who offers him the impossible: the chance to repair his neural damage and regain the life he once had. Placed under the protection of Molly, a professional killer who frees him by executing the local crime lord, Case is hired on a mysterious assignment that begins a journey out of the gutters of future Tokyo and into an ever-expanding world of multinational intrigue. It is a race against the clock as Case must complete his unfolding mission before Armitage’s installed timers activate poisons in his body that will once again render him impotent.
As Case progresses through his assignments with Molly and a range of others enlisted by Armitage, he becomes aware that everyone and everything is interconnected in complex and startling ways, including all of their pasts. He begins to realize that not only are larger forces working to control his activities - his life and the lives around him are being precisely manipulated like codes in a real world program. Ultimately, Case realizes that this program is being run by Neuromancer, a far-reaching artificial intelligence using them to evolve toward a new level of unimaginable sentience. The opus ends with Case’s realization that his selfish choices have been controlled by the very technology he uses.
As time runs out and the poisons begin to release, Case heads into a final confrontation in which the only way to break free from Neuromancer’s logic program is to make an illogical choice he has never made before: a tragically selfless act. Illogical, but defiantly human.