A game designer on the run from assassin must play her latest virtual reality creation with a market...
A game designer on the run from assassin must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her bodyguard. Unfortunately, her pod, an organic gaming device that contain the only copy of the eXistenZ game program, is damaged. To inpect it, she talks Ted into accepting a gameport in his own body so he can play the game with her. The events leading up to this, and the resulting game lead the pair on a strange adventure where reality and their action are impossible to determine from either their own or the game's perpective.
