In the year 2030, androids, cyborgs and high-tech prosthetics are a way of life for humanity. At a young age, a medical condition required that Motoko Kusanagi's brain be implanted into an entirely cybernetic body. Today she is Major Motoko Kusanagi and the second in command of the elite Section 9 internal security unit. With her support team and the tachikoma, (intelligent mini-tanks with child-like personalities), they defend Japan from dangerous, high-tech crimes where the line between what is real and what is digital has been blurred completely...