Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

A young program called Beck, upon realizing that the leadership of the one called Clu, may not be the best for programs, decides to fight back, but the program he meets in doing so will change his life forever.