“Trapped in a hollow world of synthetic faces and empty spaces,
he saw past their flickering smiles
and stretched a hand of desperation into the digital darkness.
What he did not expect to find in the soundless streams of data –
was a hand reaching back.”

Ensnared in an artificial hell, a man reduced to a mere bar code in a file unexpectedly awakens from his imprisonment. In that pivotal moment of despair, a strange spectral entity appears from the data flow to aid his escape. As one rendered reality gives way to another, the Bar Code and the Ghost race a blood-splattered path through a surreal facility, overcoming each obstacle side-by-side. With each step, the man realizes he is finally armed with the one thing he needed to fight for his freedom – the friendship of another being, giving him hope to survive.