Five years ago, seventeen-year-old genius Anne Carter was on the verge of death in a car accident. She has the extraordinary talent of "seeing the entire maze" and can instantly understand the nature of complex systems. At the last moment of her life, she said those heartbreaking words to her father: "I don't want to stay in the dark." Desperate Allen launched the "Lila Protocol" that had been secretly studied for many years, and completely uploaded her daughter's consciousness to the "hibernation" data center located deep in the Arctic.
In order to protect Annie from the covetousness of technology giants, Allen used a unique algorithm based on his daughter's childhood mathematical problem-solving patterns to seal her consciousness, then destroyed all research materials and became a fugitive in the digital world incognito. But the seal isn't eternal - it's slowly degrading, like an inexorable countdown timer.
In the snowstorm of the Arctic night, a pursuit battle spanning reality and virtuality, life, death and eternity begins. Ellen must travel across the icy wasteland to reconnect with her daughter, who is trapped in a digital maze. In the virtual world composed of codes, Annie is learning to use her talents to fight against intruders and protect the digital home her father built for her.
When father and daughter finally meet again at the boundary between digital and reality, they face the ultimate test: How to define the true meaning of "existence" in the digital world under the siege and interception of technology giants? Is consciousness uploading the gospel of eternal life or a prison for the soul?
