Why does Horace, a sensitive teenager with a high IQ, stay up all night playing video games for hours? What does he find in gaming? Entertainment? A need for action and adventure? An escape from his personal problems? All of these and, additionally—when he solves the puzzles and completes all the missions—the satisfaction of succeeding. But in life, everything has a price. Horace's involvement with video games plunges him into introversion and disorients him to the point where he ends up living in two parallel worlds: the real and the imaginary. Will he manage to escape the trap of virtual reality? A novel partly inspired by real events, it vividly addresses the issue of gaming.