Beautiful cyborg Alita has had a long career as a deadly hunter-warrior. Now it's another resurrection and a third lease on life for North America's new, tough manga sweetheart: Alita's death sentence is commuted in exchange for her services in an elite force of the utopian city Tiphares. Her first assignment: protect a nuclear-powered train from the infamous brigands known as Barjack. But en route there's even more trouble when a brash, handsome mercenary catches her eye.