"I am not a number, I am a free man!" / After resigning his position as a top British secret agent, the protagonist, whose true name is never revealed, is abducted and brought to "The Village", a very unconventional prison filled with seemingly brainwashed residents. Not knowing who his captors are, nor who is a prisoner there, or who is a warder, Number Six , as he becomes known as, devises ways to escape, while at the same time resisting his mysterious captors attempts to extract one piece of information: why he resigned.