We're all Connected... There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a thirteen year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: 'I just abandoned my body. I still live here...'. Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur? The introverted 13-year-old Lain replies, and her correspondent claims not to be dead, but to have passed into the 'wired world'. Eventually, Lain must join her. What follows is a story that combines virtual-reality, nanotechnology, a host of other science fiction concepts, and a healthy dose of postmodern paranoia. The phrase 'nothing is what it seems' applies to just about everything in this compelling anime.