Computer hacker, Jordan Voss is caught breaking into a sensitive government database and is arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced all in one day. Sounds like a third world dictatorship, but this is America after reeducation revolutionizes the criminal justice system. Jordan is moved to a special apartment where everything he does is monitored. Every person he meets, including the carpenter who comes to fix his broken door, is a counselor, working to teach Jordan to follow the law and, more importantly, to assess whether he is fit to live in polite society. Jordan received his Ph.D. at fifteen years old, so when his counselors try manipulating him with psychological ploys, they keep winding up one step behind. Jordan takes control and runs amok, exploiting every weakness in his reeducation team, pitting them against one another and causing complete chaos. When the inevitable crackdown comes from above, Jordan's life is on the line.