This image is Wades hideout, an old van where the orphaned boy stores his most treasured belongings. In Ernest Clines 2011 book, this is where the character goes to be alone, since he shares his aunts teetering trailer in the impoverished, Jenga-like Stacks with 15 other people.
Theres extreme wealth in the world, but most people dont have it. The only escape from this miserable existence is through the virtual reality simulation created by James Halliday (Oscar-winner Mark Rylance), who has recently shuffled off this mortal coil but left behind a final game for his millions of users: Whoever solves his series of pop-culture quests wins the OASIS, along with its parent company, Gregarious Games.
This digital getaway will be locked away or at least become prohibitively expensive if it ends up being taken over by the corporate IOI organization.
So Wade and some of this fellow treasure-seekers are in a race with the rest of the world to protect it, uncovering clues in a game that will decide ownership of this innerspace.
Parzivals closest friends and allies are people hes never met in real life: Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), Aech (Lena Waithe), and I-R0k (T.J. Miller) while their greatest foe in this quest is Nolan Sorrento (Rogue Ones Ben Mendelsohn), who is IOIs murderous chief of Oology.
