In the ultimate virtual reality, you can do anything you want, achieve anything you want - play Beethoven, climb Everest, win the World Cup - even if you have no skills at any of them. You can do it all. You just think it so and it happens, and all the sights, smells and sensations are as real to you as though you were there. Who would ever want to leave? But how has the man behind it all - the shady Archbishop - arranged the world? Is it all as blissful as it seems? Or are there sinister secrets at the heart of The Equilibrium? Emile rebels and discovers the Archbishop's deadly secret - but what can he do to stop it? And can he rescue Anna from its all-powerful clutches?