Mirage of Darkness is the story of a man named Bracticus who lives in a world where people have been fitted with microchips that allow an all-powerful government to control their every move. Bracticus' world is divided both by wealth and race with the darker skinned and mixed member of their society being in the lower-class positions. Things are lifeless and robotic, and people are being kept in place by media propaganda, the police and religion. 

One day, Bracticus receives a message from his deceased Uncle Homic who alerts him that as a high ranking Party Member, Homic knows that the Party is poisoning the atmosphere and that action will result in the death of millions of lower class people. Determined to alert the masses, Bracticus becomes an enemy of the state on the run with a mission to take down the regime.