Section 9 heads to a base out at sea to take down a terrorist group and find out why a teenage girl they kidnapped sixteen years ago looks like she has not aged.
Major Kusanagi and Section 9 track the movements of Marcelo Jarti, the hero of a democratic revolution and a South American drug dealer, whose frequent visits to Japan are suspect, but following Jarti yields unexpected results.
The Prime Minister calls upon his top crime-fighting force, Major Kusanagi and her cybernetically-enhanced Section 9 agents, when a high-ranking government official is kidnapped.