For sixteen-year-old Nelly Kidd, school doesn’t mean teachers or homework or studying.

Instead, like all students in Bridgetown, she and her classmates are plugged into the Net and lessons are downloaded directly into their brains. Sounds easy, but there’s one catch – the lessons are painful and dangerous. Plus, there’s always the chance you might get fried – a lesson will scramble your brain, put you in a coma or even kill you. Nelly and her friends have no choice but to suffer through this, week after week. That’s why they call themselves Brain Slaves.