In a world where virtual prisons are considered humane, a female inmate discovers she’s part of an elite-driven psychological experiment, and must fight to maintain her sanity and avoid becoming a tool for societal control.

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When sentenced to a virtual prison, a VR inmate must overcome a brutal elite-driven psychological experiment to expose her captors in order to escape.

Yes, her goal is to expose the antagonists and to break out of the prison. The antagonists' ultimate goal is to "train" inmates to being good citizens by doing psychological experiments and torturing them in the VR prison.

If the protagonist's mind is her prison, does she fight to expose the baddie experimenters to stop the maltreatment of inmates?