The harrowing landscape of Newark, 2055: poverty, violence, brutality, gang lords. A team of runners must free a man from the life of a slave, and maintain their honor. Honor alone distinguishes man from the ravaging dogs that fill the streets - and as the runners soon learn, the price of honor is high. A team of professional shadowrunners undertake an ill-fated personnel extraction. Trapped by their own ethics, the shadowrunners are drawn further and further into a shell-game of highly prized scientists and rival corporations throughout the New York-New Jersey megaplex.