Location: Neo-Tokyo City, 38 years after the outbreak of World War III. Tetsuo and Kaneda are difficult teenagers, whose only entertainment is to drive with friends on ultra-fast motorbikes in the dilapidated after the explosion of the Japanese capital. During a showdown between teenage biker groups, Tetsuo’s boy encounters a strange child, having lost control of a motorcycle, whose skin is bluish. Suddenly, military helicopters fly to the scene of the accident and take both of them with them. Kaneda, Tetsuo’s friend and his team are confused, they don’t they can understand why the troops took the guy with them. Meanwhile, experiments are beginning on Tetsuo, turning it into the latest type of parapsychological weapon, the best example of which was at one time a mysterious boy named Akira.