Thomas Anderson's life is divided into two parts: during the day he is an ordinary office worker receiving scolding from his superiors, and at night he turns into a hacker named Neo, and there is no place on the network where he could not reach. But one day everything changes - the hero, unwittingly, learns the terrible truth: everything that surrounds him is nothing more than an illusion, the Matrix, and people are just a source of nutrition for artificial intelligence that enslaved humanity. And only Neo is able to change the balance of power in this alien and terrible world.