It is the future. A corporate-run island prison, which experienced riots many years ago and then was promptly abandoned, left both prisoners and employees to fend for themselves. Now, years later, food and water are running out. A prisoner and two others - Vegas and Eve - use a raft to head for the mainland. It is later revealed via flashbacks that Eve was an employee's daughter whose mother was savagely abused by the prisoners after the riots and that she herself became a sex slave to the very prisoner she is now escaping with. The raft overturns somewhere near the mainland and Vegas is nowhere to be seen as Eve and the prisoner are washed ashore. She kills the prisoner. She also kills a man who promises, then refuses, to give her money for sex; money she needed for food.

Meanwhile, a police commissioner who is aware of the escape wants this situation "cleaned up" and gets a parolee named Nick to help him. Nick finds the body of the prisoner and the other dead man.

Maria (Meredith) is out on her balcony when she spots Eve on the beach. Maria goes down and offers help to Eve, letting her clean up, eat, and sleep. Sad and lonely, Maria is dependent on mood-creating drugs. She makes a pass at Eve but is rebuffed. In the morning, Maria bathes, dresses elegantly in a lovely dress and boa, then goes to the top of a cliff and jumps off.

Eve assumes Maria's identity, lives in her home, gets a job as a waitress, befriends a neighbor named Jimmy who helps teach her how to do everyday things, and plays Virtual Encounters, a virtual reality sex experience where you meet others who are playing from other locations.

Vegas is living as a bum in a lifeguard house.

Eve and Nick meet and have passionate sex in the Virtual Encounters game although they assume other visual identities and do not recognize one another when Nick finds her in the bar she works at during his investigation. Nick is suspicious of her, as she does not have any identification. He finds out she is not Maria. He unknowingly continues to meet her in the virtual reality realm.

Eve coincidentally runs into Vegas in the alley outside the bar. She gives him money and promises to bring more but doesn't want to associate with him. Nick, although he is very suspicious of her, beds Eve. They realize that that they have been meeting in Virtual Encounters. He refuses to kill her. But he finds Vegas and unsuccessfully tries to kill him. Vegas then goes to Eve's home. He kills Jimmy and threatens to kill her. Nick arrives and Vegas shoots him. Eve shoots and kills Vegas. She leaves for another city.

Three years later she returns and buys the bar she used to work in. Nick, alive and now the commissioner, sees her in the bar and they have a cool exchange.

But they have a steamy meeting that night in Virtual Encounters.

This movie has some good acting in it but a slow pace and poor directing hamper it. It also has the "feel" of a "B" movie. Audie England as Eve is quite good as is Joel Grey as Jimmy. Billy Wirth does a fine job as Nick and Morgan Fairchild makes a brief cameo appearance as the original bar owner.

Meredith is exceptionally good. Her best friend is a pyramid pill dispenser which gives pills to put you in any state of mind you want. When we first see Maria, she has just finished taking a bath. She makes her request, with great anticipation, to the pyramid; "I want to feel elegant". The dispenser refuses, telling her that her pill input is excessive. Her anger at this is well acted. Her pass at Eve is very gentle and sensual; very well done. Meredith does an extraordinary job playing this woman full of emptiness and sadness, a woman who can't live happily in reality and can't even get enough pills to live happily in a drugged state. This is a woman whose closest contact with reality is through the empty lonely pleasure of the Virtual Encounters world.