As Kevin Flynn searches for proof that he invented a hit video game, he is “digitalized” by a laser and finds himself inside The Grid, where programs suffer under the tyrannical rule of the Master Control Program. With the help of TRON, a security program, Flynn seeks to free The Grid from the MCP.
A pair of failing high school students—Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted “Theodore” Logan—are visited by a time traveler from the future, who takes them on an adventure through time to gather up actual historical figures to help them with a history report.
