David Martinez is a street urchin struggling to survive in the rotten underworld of Night City, a metropolis dominated by ruthless corporations, drugs, and cybernetic mods. When a random shooting takes his mother, leaving him penniless and without a future, David decides to risk it all: he has "Sandevistan" implanted in his spine, an illegal and highly psychotic military cybernetic implant that grants him superhuman speed. Recruited by a band of mercenaries and edgerunners led by veteran Maine and joined by Lucy, a mysterious netrunner dreaming of escaping to the moon, David plunges headlong into a spiral of robberies, massacres, and corporate conspiracies. But in Night City, there are no happy endings: the more augmentations you install to protect your team, the closer you get to madness, and David will learn the hard way that street glory always comes with your life.