A frozen night covers Milan as Piero Manzano returns home by car. Suddenly, the city lights go out one by one, and within a few minutes, complete darkness prevails. Drivers stop their cars at the sides of the roads. What is happening? Why this blackout?
At the same time, the cities of Europe, one after the other, also sink into darkness. The controllers of the power stations, in Paris, The Hague,
Berlin, Madrid, see the electrical grids collapse, so inexplicably, and without being able to do anything. The disaster continues with other cities… Plunged into darkness, people begin to freeze. Water and food supplies run out. Death casts its heavy shadow over Europe… Former hacker Manzano comes under the authorities' scrutiny. He is the prime suspect for this disaster. But he is the only one who could find the real culprits…