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Navi: We're all connected.
There is a world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a thirteen-year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she recieves an e-mail from the dead girl: "I just abandoned my body. I still live here..." Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur?
Layers: "Weird," "Girls," "Psyche," "Religion"

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Knights: Fulfill the Prophecy...
"KNIGHTS" - a super hacker group that has large effects in the wired. No one knows who the members are, but they control information and sometimes develop and distribute illegal information equipment. The KNIGHTS are trying to make Lain do something... When Lain metaphorizes her physical self into the wired to search for an answer of incidents that kids commit suicide. She finds that the KNIGHTS are behind this incident. One day, a group of men in black suits make a contact Lain. They ask "Are those people who you live with really your parents?" "Are you the Lain of the wired?" and "Who are you really?"
Layers: "Distortion," "Kids," "Society"

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Deus: I am God in the wired... I created you, Lain.
There are rumors that Lain is stealing people's secrets and spreading them in the wired. Her friends, including Arisu [Alice], abandon Lain, and even her parents leave, telling Lain that they are not her real parents. Then Lain discovers the one in the wired causing the trouble- her other self. "Which is the real me!?" Lonely and confused, Lain then encounters a man who calls himself "God" in the wired.
Layers: "Rumors," "Protocol," "Love"

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Reset: "I'll delete myself and reset everyone's memory."
Who am I? The question is asked over and over again throughout the noise. Lain destroys her own creator and loses her best friend, now Lain must decide what to do. Should she delete herself from everyone's memory? If she does, the real world should remain exactly the same, but if no on remembers her, did Lain ever really exist?
Layers: "Infornography," "Landscape," "Ego"

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