After getting beat up by her husband, a woman leaves home and seeks refuge at her cousin's place, surrounded by a strange assortment of people, including an equally abused transsexual.
Alex Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade" and takes over their minds.
Ce feuilleton raconte la lutte impitoyable entre la riche Angela Channing et son neveu Chase Gioberti, qui a hérité de son père une partie du domaine viticole de Falcon Crest, situé dans la vallée de Tuscany, non loin de San Francisco.