Dans le futur, quand les améliorations technologiques du corps et la robotique sont devenues une façon de vivre, le Major Motoko Kusanagi et la section 9 s'occupent de missions trop difficiles pour la police. La section 9 emploie des hackers, tireurs d'élite, détectives et cyborgs, dans le but de contrecarrer les cybercriminels et leurs plans visant les innocents.

When Karl, a young monk, comes to Bolzano after a robbery, he only reminisces about the events of the previous night. Ambitious journalist Chiara, sensing a new story, and Erich, the commissioner investigating the case, meet in the hospital room. What initially looks like a simple case turns out to be increasingly a secret network full of intrigues and criminal machinations that draws its circles into the highest social classes in South Tyrol.